Biology Quotes

• At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.

  

  Hartmut Michel
  • School
  • History
  • Physics

• The development of an organism … may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. … A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.

  

  Aristid Lindenmayer
  • Development
  • Biology
  • Organism

• Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary) causes, the subject of natural history.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • History
  • Study
  • Causes

• I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

  

  Sigrid Agren
  • Math
  • Biology
  • Liked

• I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.

  

  Susumu Tonegawa
  • Science
  • Biology
  • Fascinated

• "Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Evolution
  • Tiger
  • Biology

• Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Action
  • Choices
  • Biology

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