Biology Quotes

Nature does nothing uselessly.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses driven by values, hopes, and fears.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If you know every gene in an organism, you don't know that organism.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

God created, Linnaeus organized.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

Our minds, our brains, are the most complicated things in the universe. We can't expect to understand them without a lot of hard work.

DNA is a language, a code, a set of instructions. It's the software of life.

The results of the experiments, however, afford some guarantee that the method employed was the correct one.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.