Quotes for All
You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I’m interested in. I can’t imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as Words … Read more
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. Eugenie Scott
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. Erwin Chargaff
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, … Read more
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public. Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke
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
There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli. Ernst Mayr
Politics is applied biology. Ernst Haeckel
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these. Ernest Everett Just
When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to … Read more