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Biology Quotes

"I believe that the brain has evolved, like the rest of the body. And you can't understand the brain as an abstract mechanism that operates on its own. You really have to understand the body and the environment that this brain is operating in"

"Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose"

"It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work."

"The process of natural selection is smarter than you are."

"We are organisms that have evolved mechanisms for learning how to respond to our environments in ways that tend to increase our fitness"

"In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced."

"Expecting an organism to evolve traits just because they are useful to us is a dangerous kind of anthropocentrism."

"I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will"

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

"The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid"

"Nature never makes leaps."

"Anatomy is destiny."

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with "

"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."

"Evolution is the single greatest force in the universe; it’s the only thing that’s permanent, and it drives everything."

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