Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

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The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology.

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Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

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Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

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We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons.

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

quote by Walter Gilbert
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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

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Keep your spirit forever young, despite the evil demands of the biological clock!

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It Comes - Part 3

(It is suggested that the reader reads Parts 1 and 2 first)

Several marine biologists
now suggested that a giant squid
could be the creature that they were looking for,
but could not explain the blue light.
As a precaution to the present dangers below the equator,
ships were requested that they find suitable ports
to stay in overnight.
Naval Air forces from most countries
searched the seas at night and day
hoping to spot whatever was causing the disappearances.

Dr Roger Maitland of Oxford,
marine biologist now retired
studied the reports on the news.
He looked at charts
and read what the survivor of the Sulu Spray
had mumbled incoherently repeatedly.
He had his own theory about the creature,

[...] Read more

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And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

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Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

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Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

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

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

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A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

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In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

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Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

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