John Eccles Quotes

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

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

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics - they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

Biology

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms.

I like biology a lot.

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The subject I was best at in school was biology.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.