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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are increasingly becoming cyborg-like beings. We are becoming literally what we create. Biology, physics, and technology are evolving towards one and the same thing.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want a cure for cancer,' but that doesn't tell you what evolutionary pathway will take you from here to there. What are the intermediate steps?
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone has a fantastic biology background, he or she can contribute in AI and health care. AI has many aspects.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is applied biology.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020