#biology

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep. ↗

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

#science #dreams

If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#biology #humans #life #science #universe

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. ↗

— David Marusek

#biology #consciousness #sentience #life

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#nature

We all know interspecies romance is weird. ↗

— Tim Burton

#animals #biology #genetics #interspecies #love

In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred. ↗

— Michael Behe

#biological #biology #black #box #cell

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#base #biology #birth #found #had

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#concept #evolution #makes #science #unique

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

#become #biology #century #part #physics

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. ↗

— James D. Watson

#interesting #least #more #years