Biology Quotes - Page 18

• The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

  Jean Gebser

  Taken, Moments, Consideration

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• If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding.
  Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Giving

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• The question of surrender is political, it is not a question of love. And relationship is not love at all; it means love has ended and relationship has begun. It begins very soon after the honeymoon - mostly in the middle of the honeymoon. It is not easy to live with another person whose life-style is different, whose likings are different, whose education and culture is different, and above all the other happens to be a woman - even their biology is different.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Mean, Political

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• There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

  Jerome Groopman

  Pain, Block, Keys

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.8, Random House

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• The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Science, Intellectual

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• Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so simple and so significant, that one would think it would have been recognized by many and would be the starting point for any discussion on the causes of disease. Not yet.

  Paul W. Ewald

  Simple, Thinking, Ideas

  Paul W. Ewald (2000). “Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

  Shane Koyczan

  Knowing, Comfort, Being The Best

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• Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

  Cordelia Fine

  Possibility, Said, Determine

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.122, Icon Books Ltd

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• Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Perception, Speech

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• Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

  Edwin Conklin

  Cells, Development, May

  "The Mechanism of Heredity". "Science", Vol. 27, No. 691, January 17, 1908.

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• The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Doctrine, Genius, Facts

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.331, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Community, Together

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.16, Penguin

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• It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Emotional, Emotional Life

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• What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Play, Differences, Worry

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• Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.

  Victor LaValle

  Beautiful, Daughter, Father

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• If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people preaching hatred, which encourages violence. We are living in times when technology, biology and chemistry have created the possibility of killing in large numbers. And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion.

  Akbar S. Ahmed

  Hate, Technology, Numbers

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• Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.

  Joseph Campbell

  Beautiful, Girl, Dragons

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• I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone.

  Dan Howell

  Pain, Want, Wonder

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• It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology is now a science in which theories can be devised: theories which lead to predictions and predictions which sometimes turn out to be correct. These facts confirm me in a belief I hold most passionately-that biology is the heir of all the sciences.

  Peter Medawar

  Brother, Time, Science

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• Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

  Marston Bates

  Science, Animal, Nomenclature

  Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing today as it seldom has flourished in the past. For biologists collectively are less agreed upon the details of evolutionary mechanics than they were a scant decade ago. Superficially, it seems as if we know less about evolution than we did in 1959, the centennial year of Darwin's on the Origin of Species.

  Niles Eldredge

  Past, Years, Healthy

  Niles Eldredge (2014). “Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is going to school on American poetry in the twentieth century, from Ezra Pound to W. S. Merwin, and for very good reason. We have soaked up influence in the last century like a sponge. It's cross-pollination, first law of biology, that the more variety you have the more health you have.

  Sam Hamill

  School, Law, Dynasty

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

  Wendy Mogel

  Real, Understanding, Teens

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• It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.

  Staceyann Chin

  Years, Careers, Growth

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. I'm also from the area that is considered to be the cradle of mankind.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Way, Fields, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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