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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #biology




But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.


David Brin


#biology #far #find #honestly #i

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.


Warren Farrell


#destiny #era #men #moved #today

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?


Auguste Comte


#allowed #biology #chemistry #freely #men

[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren't there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place . . . Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that doesn't make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.


Steve Grand


#biology #life #matter #science #steve-grand

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.


Leon Kass


#late #life #meaning #notion #science

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.


Jeff Koons


#allow #always #art #back #biology

I recently asked more than seventy eminent researchers if they would have done I their work differently if they had thought Darwin's theory was wrong. The responses were all the same: no. I also examined the outstanding biodiscoveries of the past century: the discovery of the double helix; the characterization of the ribosome: the mapping of genomes; research on medications and drug reactions: improvements in food production and sanitation; the development of new surgeries; and others. I even queried biologists working in areas where one would expect the Darwinian paradigm to have most benefited research, such as the emergence of resistance to antibiotics and pesticides. Here, as elsewhere, I found that Darwin's theory had provided no discernible guidance, but was brought in, after the breakthroughs, as an interesting narrative gloss.


Philip S. Skell


#darwin #darwinism #evolution #macro-evolution #macroevolution

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.


Nicholas D. Kristof


#biology #die #each #half #kills

Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully designing shiny weapons on modern computers. But there's no thinking in the mud and cold of nature's trenches. At best, weapons thrown together amidst the explosions and confusion of smoky battlefields are tiny variations on old ones, held together by chewing gum. If they don't work, then something else is thrown at the enemy, including the kitchen sink - there's nothing "progressive" about that. At its usual worst, trench warfare is fought by attrition. If the enemy can be stopped or slowed by burning your own bridges and bombing your own radio towers and oil refineries, then away they go. Darwinian trench warfare does not lead to progress - it leads back to the Stone Age.


Michael J. Behe


#biology #darwinism #evolution #macro-evolution #macroevolution

The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs - it's been documented - discover that if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier, and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." "So?" "So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid." "Your analogy falls down when it comes to female artists," said Jimmy. "They're not in it to get laid. They'd gain no biological advantage from amplifying themselves, since potential mates would be deterred rather than attracted by this sort of amplification. Men aren't frogs, they don't want women who are ten times bigger than them." "Female artists are biologically confused," said Crake.


Margaret Atwood


#attraction #biology #evolution #humans #humor






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