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Biology Quotes
Lines from the study of living things.
These quotes explore biology as a connective science, from genes linking humans to other animals and bacteria to a researcher who spans multiple fields without worrying about strict boundaries. Related reading continues in our Nature quotes.
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- Eruption
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Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on schoolboy biology in the 1930s. Most striking of all is the sudden eruption of molecular biology starting in the 1950s.
- Better Understanding
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As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.
- Decision
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When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.
- Physics
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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.
- Certain Way
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One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.
- Imagination
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In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
- Early
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In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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