- Chemistry
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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.
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- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could be involved in the hunting and fishing industry, that would be amazing. That said, I studied biology in college and that led into me being really involved in anatomy and being a pre-med major.
- Fossils
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
- Nov 07, 2020
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
- Heroism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020