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Biology Quotes

After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

– Harald zur Hausen

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It’s rare that evolution ‘invents’ the same process several times.

– Gero Miesenbock

There’s biology in everything, even when you’re feeling spiritual.

– Helen Fisher

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

– James D. Watson

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

– Ian Hacking

I’m trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

– Jack Horner

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.

– Jason Silva

Consciousness, when it’s unburdened by the body, is something that’s ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that’s the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that’s such a delicious feeling, but when it’s unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.

– Jason Silva

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’

– Bill Gates

When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.

– Craig Venter

If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.

– Andrew H. Knoll

Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

– Craig Venter

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

– Barbara Block

Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

– Baruj Benacerraf

The subject I was best at in school was biology.

– Astrid Berges-Frisbey

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

– Freeman Dyson

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

– Freeman Dyson

There’s a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

– Frans de Waal

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.

– Gray Scott

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

– Elizabeth Moon

Usually that’s going into biology in a certain way. There’s certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I’m not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

– Mark Morris

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It’s an emergent property.

– Gregory Stock

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

– Neil Diamond

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

– Elizabeth Blackburn

Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything – from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really interesting muscle physiology; really interesting neural computations.

– Michael Dickinson

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

– Daniel Kahneman

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

– Dan Gable

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

– Elizabeth Blackburn

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