Biological Role Quotes

For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.

What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

You can use your womb if you want - it's the most beautiful thing to do if you want - but it's not our only reason to be put on this earth.

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

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.