biology quotes

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

I’m crepuscular.

I have little bones.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.