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Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.

A paradigm shift is the best a scientist can hope for. Whenever I smell an opportunity like that, I go after it. You have a new discovery that something's working in a different way than you thought. And this is particularly true in molecular and cell biology, which is structural biology and has the least potential for controversy and partisanship among the biological scientists. You're dealing with a concrete object that's either there or not there.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

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

I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.

I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.

I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

I think women assess time passage much better than men - because of their biological clocks - and they are much more realistic about measuring out time, whereas men tend to hang onto things. Women acknowledge the biology of their time, and dance through the beat of that drum...whereas men just drum.

It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

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

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.