37 Biology Quotes from Scientists to Spark Your Interest

Biology is a branch of science that deals with the study of living things including their structure, growth, function, distribution, and origin.

Biology includes genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, and ecology.

Here are some quotes about Biology to spark your interest.


Biology Quotes

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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. ~ James Watson.

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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~ Oprah Winfrey.

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A cell is regarded as the true biological atom. ~ George Henry Lewes.

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Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. ~ Leon Kass.

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Biology always beats will power. ~ Mehmet Oz.

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Evolution is cleverer than you are. ~ Francis Crick.

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There’s biology in everything, even when you’re feeling spiritual. ~ Helen Fisher.

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Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. ~ Isaac Asimov.

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Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. ~ Jared Diamond.

Brilliant Biology Quotes

Biology cannot go far in its subject without being met by mind. ~ Sir Charles Scott Sherrington.

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division. ~ Unknown.

The theory of evolution is quite rightly called the greatest unifying theory in biology. ~ Ernst Mayr.

For a biologist the alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all. ~ Peter Medawar.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology. ~ Ryan Bethencourt.

All that biology tells us about the nature of God is that he has “An inordinate fondness for beetles.” ~ J.B.S. Haldane.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose. ~ Richard Dawkins.

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere. ~ Robert Lanza.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together. ~ Ryan Bethencourt.

Best Biology Quotes

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it. ~ Francis Crick.

The evolution of a brain was a feat of fantastic difficulty — the most spectacular enterprise since the origin of life itself. ~ Peter Medawar.

A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but when he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~ Unknown.

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design. ~ Dan Simmons.

I believe that thirty million of these animalcules together would not take up as much room, or be as big, as a coarse grain of sand. ~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

The biology of mind bridges the sciences – concerned with the natural world – and the humanities – concerned with the meaning of human experience. ~ Eric Kandel.

A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology. ~ Richard Dawkins.

Biology Quotes for Students

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. ~ Charles Darwin.

Biology is also more important than physics, as measured by its economic consequences, by its ethical implications, or by its effects on human welfare. ~ Freeman Dyson.

You can’t even begin to understand biology, you can’t understand life, unless you understand what it’s all there for, how it arose – and that means evolution. ~ Richard Dawkins.

Comparative parasitology supports the evolutionary hypothesis. If two animals have a common ancestor, their parasites are likely to be descended from those of the ancestor. ~ J.B.S. Haldane.

Seeking to populate this otherwise sterile universe with living creatures, God chose the elegant mechanism of evolution to create microbes, plants, and animals of all sorts. ~ Francis Collins.

Genetics was, I would say, the first part of biology to become a pretty good theoretical subject, based on the theory of the gene and patterns of inheritance of characteristics. ~ Linus Pauling.

Famous Biology Quotes

The finding of the double helix thus brought us not only joy but great relief. It was unbelievably interesting and immediately allowed us to make a serious proposal for the mechanism of gene duplication. ~ James Watson.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple. ~ Richard Preston.

In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. ~ Richard Dawkins.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. ~ Freeman Dyson.

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man’s making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life. ~ Rachel Carson.


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