597 Quotes About Biology

Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms, by making living matter conform to the shape, time, and technical forms of simpler experimental models.

Anomala è considerata una forma, una struttura, un aspetto che si manifesta a bassa frequenza e quindi con una certa rarità. Ciò che è raro è, di per sé, visto con una certa curiosità ed è anomalo proprio perché non riconducibile alla forma canonica, a quella della maggioranza della popolazione. Ma ciò non è in assoluto contro la natura, essendo questo fenomeno, per il fatto stesso che si realizza, previsto dalle leggi naturali.

None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.

There is no definitive answer as to why cannibalism provides us with such stimulation, although what is clear, and what remains extremely disturbing for me, is our increasing desensitization to violence and gore - a trait that does not bode well for the future.

In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.

Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.

They are near the bottom of the food chain - a meal for fish and birds - while humans eat from the top of the food chain, consuming an astonishing array of what lies on the planet. But eventually, even we become food for the worms. Shakespeare saw this connection, writing in Hamlet, "A man may fish with a worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of a fish that hath fed of that worm.

The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.