Biological Processes Quotes

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.

Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric.

Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule that you make when you are getting sunburned or when you eat a lot of food is part of the same molecule that contains an endorphin or an opiate. No one has ever had a hypothesis about why the two are together.

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

Enzymes catalyze all the reactions of life. They're what allow you to extract materials and energy from your environment and turn that into muscle and tissue and fat. That's all done by enzymes. They're pretty remarkable chemists - they're even better than Caltech chemists.

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.