597 Quotes About Biology

All species on earth are related to one another like cousins and distant kin in a vast family tree of life.

Evolution is a relentless process, it never stops.

What is life - life is not merely the functional expression of protoplasmic substance - it is the functional expression of protoplasmic substance that holds unimaginable potential for growth and progress.

All sorts of changes in cellular machinery have shown up that have nothing to do with the sequence of DNA but still have profound, and heritable, impacts for generations to come. For example, malnourished rats give birth to undersized pups that, even if well fed, grow up to give birth to undersized pups. Which means, among other things, that poor old Lamarck was right—at least some acquired traits can be passed down.

When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.

Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.

It takes not a few centuries, or even millenniums, but millions of years for a subtle evolutionary change to become noticeable.

Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.

Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation.