Biology Quotes
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The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of "in virtue of" relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.
Elliott Sober -
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
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I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.
Sigrid Agren -
There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.
Ernst Mayr -
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 -
"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 -
Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.
George Will