597 Quotes About Biology

It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find life worth living, and be against rape, if it has led to your existence.

All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons.

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

Sorgan tried his very best not to think about how long it must have taken for a stream that small to eat its way down through solid rock to form its current bed. Sorgan knew exactly what the word “hundred” meant, but when numbers wandered off toward “thousand”—or even “million”—and the people who used those terms were talking about years, Sorgan’s mind shied back in horror.

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to talk sneeringly about purely astronomical phenomena, 'Mere dead matter' was one of their favourite phrases.

If God were mortal and had but one life to give, he would have been more careful about how he created the world.

To be honest, as a species we may not live long enough to ever understand the true reality of the universe. But as the foundation of consciousness lies within the domain of biology one day we shall know all there is to know about it.

Visions, imagination, curiosity and experience give rise to discovery.

When you have experienced what oxygen starvation and biological deficiencies can do to mental processes, you have sampled what happens during the final stages of death in the human.