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Biology Quotes

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

– Rebecca Skloot

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

– Paul Nurse

Diminutive worlds are more likely to be rocky, and lapped by oceans and atmospheres. In the vernacular of ‘Star Trek,’ these would be M-class planets: life-friendly oases where biology could begin and bumpy-faced Klingons might exist.

– Seth Shostak

Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there’s still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard.

– Seth Shostak

If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

– Richard Preston

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

– Ryan Bethencourt

We’re finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.

– Ryan Bethencourt

Biology is greener and, at scale, should be incredibly cost-effective: The cost of goods sold should be little more than the sugar water needed to brew almost anything.

– Ryan Bethencourt

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

– Peter Agre

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

– Oprah Winfrey

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

– Paul Berg

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

– Richard Dawkins

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn’t yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

– Peter Agre

We have to accept that we are just machines. That’s certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

– Rodney Brooks

We treat human biology as our center point. Everyone already has a head-mounted display. It’s your head!

– Rony Abovitz

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

– Thomas R. Cech

I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.

– Susumu Tonegawa

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

– Shinya Yamanaka

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection – when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection’s centrality.

– Stephen Jay Gould

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

– Skeet Ulrich

I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe’s laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.

– Susumu Tonegawa

We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

– Sam Kean

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

– Thomas Cochrane

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

– Thomas Huxley

It was Max Perutz who inspired me to go into structural biology when he gave a lecture at Harvard in 1963. As soon as I heard him talk, I decided that this is what I want to do.

– Thomas A. Steitz

I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would – I would say that it’s probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it’s mostly chemistry.

– Wylie Dufresne

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

– Walter Gilbert

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

– Theodosius Dobzhansky

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

– Wilhelm Ostwald

There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of ‘CSI.’

– Walter O’Brien

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