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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.
- Thomas R. Cech
I think there is value in having practising scientists
as leaders of research institutions.
- Thomas R. Cech
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to
spend a little bit of their time either in the community
or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
- Thomas R. Cech
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area,
and I think that such attention to proper environmental
concerns would make the public feel much better about it.
- Thomas R. Cech
The overall view of the human genome project has been
one of great excitement and positive press,
but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable,
and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
- Thomas R. Cech
If you want to study one of these strange organisms,
you had better have a good justification.
It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure
insect that no one's ever heard about.
- Thomas R. Cech
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
- C. J. Cherryh
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Biology is the science.
Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
- Jared Diamond
Biology, meaning the science of all life,
is a late notion.
- Leon Kass
No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.
- Neil Diamond
I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
- John Pople
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses
in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started
a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
- Paul Nurse
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
I had gone to school to study marine biology.
- Skeet Ulrich
And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals
the laws of the life and development of living bodies,
the more effective is the science of agronomy.
- Trofim Lysenko
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.
- Paul Berg
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy.
It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
- Nicholas D. Kristof
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics,
and into the age of biology.
- Jeremy Rifkin
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth.
But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened,
and our view of the world is again being shaken.
- Michael Behe
Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad,
saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further
development of scientific biology.
- Trofim Lysenko
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
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
- James D. Watson
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
- Oprah Winfrey
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology,
the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
- James A. Baldwin
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
- Elizabeth Moon
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with,
that physics has one method, chemistry another,
and biology a third.
- Thomas Huxley
In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.
- Trofim Lysenko
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology:
why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
- Auguste Comte
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology,
and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas,
and then did some graduate work in it.
- Elizabeth Moon
But while doing that I'd been following a variety of
fields in science and technology,
including the work in molecular biology,
genetic engineering, and so forth.
- K. Eric Drexler
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of
morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
- Thomas Cochrane
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical
biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly
preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
- Paul Berg
One of the most amazing developments in the history of biology.
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
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
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods.
It did not evolve to believe in biology.
- E. O. Wilson
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting
your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
- Deepak Chopra
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
- John M. Smith
Politics is applied biology.
- Ernst Haeckel
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.
- David Brin
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was
founded and directed by Tom Pollard,
an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
- Peter Agre
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of
other animals and bacteria,
to this great chain of being.
- Walter Gilbert
To address questions of scientific responsibility does
not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence
in a particular field (e.g.
biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
- Serge Lang
Usually that's going into biology in a certain way.
There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes.
And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those,
what I am looking for is a very large array of options.
- Mark Morris
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing
base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding
all the problems in biology we had found intractable -
it was the birth of molecular biology.
- Sydney Brenner
I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton
was a good place for this work because it had a strong
tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
- Paul Nurse
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
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my
brother Theodore (a year older than me),
I soon became interested in biology and developed a
respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
- Frederick Sanger
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance,
it became clear at once that its scientific,
materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature,
was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
- Trofim Lysenko
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology.
What we learn from connections within the family takes
the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals;
which raises the question,
how good are these connections?
- Elizabeth Janeway
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa,
in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was,
biology and anthropology.
I was around 16 years old when I made this particular
choice of academic pursuit.
- Donald Johanson
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one.
A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different.
So the most basic claims of religion are scientific.
Religion is a scientific theory.
- Richard Dawkins
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.
- Michael Polanyi
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
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.
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box:
not only the cell,
or the eye, or digestion, or immunity,
but every biological structure and function because,
ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
- Michael Behe
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was
the problem of how cells underwent differentiation,
with most workers concentrating on explanations in
terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.
- Paul Nurse
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
You can create miracles in your own life,
and in the lives of those around you -
because you are a miracle,
and you are connected to the source of all miracles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
May You Always Be Connected With Earth and Sky -
Drawing Energy From Both.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe.
Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole.
All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings,
and deeds are listened to by all that is.
- Serge Kahili King
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree
is connected with that of man.
- Henry David Thoreau
All is connected...
no one thing can change by itself.
- Paul Hawken
Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade,
both being connected together.
- Dudley North
It could be that people just want to be connected to
something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven.
I don't know, I don't think that's it.
- Dwight Schultz
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family,
nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
- Matt Drudge
Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.
- James Nasmyth
I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed
the show would last as long as it did.
- James MacArthur
Love is the substance of all life.
Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
- Julia Cameron
I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great
genius and will always have my name connected with his.
- Matthew Sweet
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