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

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

National Socialism is applied biology.

Love, in its purest form, is biology.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology really does affect how we spend money.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.

There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

"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.