597 Quotes About Biology

From the viewpoint of sea level adapted human biology, the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a workplace does not work.

Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This position is wrong, both empirically and morally.

I will use the truth to shut down the biologically toxic Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea.

If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as possessing biological specificity the chemical basis of which is as yet undetermined.

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

... the structure of every organic being is related, in the most essential yet often hidden manner, to that of all the other organic beings ...

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.