Biology Quotes - Page 22

• The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the human species. Killing a sociopath is equivalent to killing God. Neither exists in reality. They are empty shells of imagination, said Chiron

  C. J. Anderson

  Reality, Imagination, Personality

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• Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

  Jack W. Szostak

  Transition, Earth, Labs

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• I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

  Ali Lohan

  Marine, College, Guitar

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• On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which literalism points. That first page is not geology, biology or paleontology; it is high religion. For there we are told who we are in terms of our constititutive text. And if we could understand that, we would worrying about whether the antelopes or the cantaloupes came in a certain order.

  Joseph Sittler

  Order, Worry, Firsts

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• I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel that the world around me is a much fuller, much more wonderful, much more awesome place than I ever realized it was. That has been, for me, the wonder of science. That's why science fiction retains its compelling fascination for people. That's why the move of science fiction into biology is so intriguing. I think that science has got a wonderful story to tell.

  Simon Jenkins

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

  Brad Feld

  School, Curriculum, Needs

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• Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Blood, Brain, Feds

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• I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths GCSE – I really liked it and got an A – so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn’t have a clue.

  Nikki Sanderson

  School, Math, Careers

  "Nikki Sanderson: 'I have body hang-ups - but I work the best of what I've got'". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 2, 2008.

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• Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Home, Class, White

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• If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

  Ursula Vernon

  Queens, Book, Fate

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• Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.

  David Stoddart

  Taken, Inspiration, Science

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• We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

  Amit Goswami

  Evolution, Consciousness, Species

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• We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a specific nature, regardless of what we believe or say about it. We are more likely to be satisfied with the outcome, if we work with our biology rather than against it. We will be happier if we face reality on its own terms.

  Jennifer Morse

  Love, Believe, Reality

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• More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

  Ordway Tead

  Common Sense, Historical, Survival

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 66, 1950.

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• When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very fact that they have to be drilled shows that they are alien to the natural workings of the language system. One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.

  Steven Pinker

  Cat, Judging, Ordinary

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.409, Penguin UK

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

  Charles Darwin

  Theory Of Evolution, Facts, Peculiar

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• Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.

  E. Lockhart

  Sex, People, Birth Control

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.175, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.

  Cal Thomas

  Teacher, Sex, School

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in dynamical science. The only contribution of dynamics to theoretical biology is absolute negation of automatic commencement or automatic maintenance of life.

  Lord Kelvin

  Sound, Needs, Maintenance

  "The Life of Lord Kelvin" by Silvanus Phillips, Volume 2, (p. 866), 2005.

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• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, College, Physical Education

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• A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the area's biology, overwhelming and driving to extinction dozens or hundreds or thousands of other local species.

  Thom Hartmann

  Environmental, Population, Dozen

  "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink". Book by Thom Hartmann, p.22, mindprod.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.

  Christopher Alexander

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Color

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• The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Body, Unions

  Factors Determining Human Behaviour

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• I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

  Kristina Schroder

  Feminist, Environment, Gender

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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