Biology Quotes - Page 13

• It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, Psychology, Depth

  Source: libcom.org

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• I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.

  Bobby Jindal

  Family, Education, School

  "Bobby Jindal: Republican who brought creationism into schools to join election" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There’s no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That’s the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body.

  Christiane Northrup

  Exercise, Cells, Medicine

  Dr. Christiane Northrup (2015). “Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being”, p.25, Hay House, Inc

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• We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'

  Errol White

  Jumping, Progress, Paleontology

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• I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.

  Goldie

  Religious, People, Joy

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• I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.

  Matt Frewer

  Girl, Teacher, Drama

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• I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.

  Garth Nix

  Book, Thinking, Landscape

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"

  Ricky Gervais

  Marine, First Love, Two

  "Ghost Town - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about math and science. Well we don't know enough about science and particularly biology, which is such a huge field.

  Greg Graffin

  Math, Thinking, Fields

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of these do it yourself biosynthetic labs where people are going to be playing with the software of life. We are going to have a new generation of artists that are going to be playing with genomes the way that Blake and Byron used to play with poetry. And when genomes are the new canvas for the artist, we might be able to radically upgrade the human species and the software of the biology of the human species.

  Jason Silva

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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• I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.

  Jason Silva

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

  Noam Chomsky

  World, Language, Pops

  Source: libcom.org

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• Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Firsts, Chemistry

  1969 The Andromeda Strain.

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• It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

  Deepak Chopra

  Intelligent, Design, Asking

  "Intelligent Design Without the Bible". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2005.

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• Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

  Ian Hacking

  Taken, Wings, Ideas

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• If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

  Aubrey de Grey

  People, Looks, Winner

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

  Naomi Wolf

  Crazy, Want, Sometimes

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

  David Eagleman

  Reality, Voice, People

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• We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within the limitations of biology.

  Jason Silva

  Caves, Genes, Planets

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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• If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

  Noam Chomsky

  Library, Looks, Want

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Government, People

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• As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.

  Denis Hayes

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.

  Aristid Lindenmayer

  Science, Eggs, Tasks

  Aristid Lindenmayer, Grzegorz Rozenberg (1976). “Automata, languages, development”, North-Holland

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• That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Believe, Ignorance, Simple

  Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919). “The Physical basis of heredity”

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• Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

  Sergey Brin

  Technology, Data, People

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