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Biology Quotes

"When the body becomes part of a larger, fungible organism"

"The human body is essentially something that is other than an animal organism."

"We are all connected; to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; and to the rest of the universe, atomically."

"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities."

"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands"

"Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God"

"We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here"

"The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life"

"Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist"

"I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection"

"Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal"

"Natural selection is anything but random."

"We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes."

"To all, to men and to animals, to plants and to things, to everything that lives, to everything that will die, to everything that breathes"

"We are determined by the fact of birth, by the bodily and mental structure we bring into the world"

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