#biology

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#attention #basic #basic principles #biology #close

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

#cell #department #directed #energy #engaging

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. ↗

— Paul Berg

#biology #human #human values #ideas #impact

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

#biology #breakthrough #connected #exaggerates #explore

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. ↗

— C. J. Cherryh

#biology #conditions #culture #how #living

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#belief #between #biology #body #free

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

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

#evolution #except #light #makes #nothing

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biology #bodies #development #effective #laws

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biologists #biology #both #country #darwinism