Biology Quotes

“A good deal of our politics is physiological.”

“The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.”

“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.”

“The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.”

“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.”

“Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy”

“Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.”

“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.”

“Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while”

“Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor.”

“Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.”

“As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.”

“The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.”

“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”

“Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"”

“If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.”

“...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.”

“Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.”

“The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.”

“By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.”

“Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.”

“It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.”

“Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.”

“The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.”