181 Biology Quotes for You to Enjoy

It was Max Perutz who inspired me to go into structural biology when he gave a lecture at Harvard in 1963. As soon as I heard him talk, I decided that this is what I want to do. Thomas A. Steitz

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In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology. Trofim Lysenko

Science Biology Inseparable Essence

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. Trofim Lysenko

Struggle Opposing Biology Worlds Trends Defined Penetrating Between Sharply Particularly Antagonistic Branches Epoch Foundations Nearly Present Two

I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet. Walter Kirn

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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

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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. Wilhelm Ostwald

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. Willard Van Orman Quine

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I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it's mostly chemistry. Wylie Dufresne

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I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will. Richard Dawkins

I Am Will Free Free Will Biology Idea Comfortable Am Override Very

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases. Alice Roberts

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Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation. George E. Brown, Jr.

Marine biology was something I was into during high school and the beginning of college. Tyrus

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My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side. Richard Dawkins

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Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want a cure for cancer,' but that doesn't tell you what evolutionary pathway will take you from here to there. What are the intermediate steps? Frances Arnold

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