Biologically Quotes

#1. HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it a crime to be biologically relevant? She

Jodi Picoult

#2. Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Judith Butler

#3. If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant ... Fuck you.

Rich Hall

#4. Mauna Kea is a known biologically hostile work environment and one can only wonder why the
astronomy community is investing 1.4 billion dollars to build the world's largest telescope there.

Steven Magee

#5. Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#6. Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.

Robert Carlyle

#7. Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.

William S. Burroughs

#8. Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.

Charlie Munger

#9. Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

William James

#10. There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

Philip K. Dick

#11. I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

Natalie Maines

#12. I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.

Primo Levi

#13. Anyone who tells you that electricity is harmless is incompetent in the field of biologically harmful radiation exposures.

Steven Magee

#14. I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak baby-making years, and that's just the truth. And those are choices women have to make.

Laura Ziskin

#15. I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that biologically toxic environment.

Steven Magee

#16. Whatever I haven't accomplished biologically obviously wasn't all that imperative.

Alex Bosworth

#17. All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

Caitlin Doughty

#18. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity. A

Will Durant

#19. At the same time that a massive deployment of biologically harmful radio frequency (RF) radiation devices across the mass population has occurred, we see the reduction of health care for the poor, sick and elderly.

Steven Magee

#20. That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Studs Terkel

#21. The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

Ashley Montagu

#22. And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never ... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

Zoe Kazan

#23. I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

Jeffrey Wright

#24. To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

John Medina

#25. It is unclear if corporate governments are truly the dunces of human health or if they are just faking it in order to propagate a biologically toxic agenda on an unsuspecting global population.

Steven Magee

#26. Temperament refers to inborn, biologically based behavioral and emotional patterns that are observable in infancy and early childhood; personality is the complex brew that emerges after cultural influence and personal experience are thrown into the mix.

Susan Cain

#27. Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore.

Joan Lunden

#28. We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

Ruth Benedict

#29. Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Daniel Goleman

#31. I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Carol Gilligan

#32. Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#33. I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

Margaret Mead

#34. By conceiving of love as biologically inevitable, key to the continuation of the species, Schopenhauer's theory of the will invites us to adopt a more forgiving stance towards the eccentric behaviour to which love so often makes us subject.

Alain De Botton

#35. There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

Marcia Angell

#36. While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.

E. M. Forster

#37. We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

Steven Pinker

#38. Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.

Robert Charles Wilson

#39. Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost everyone believes that we can have sex without love; mosr folks do not believe that a couple can have love in a relationship if there is no sex.

Bell Hooks

#40. I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Aubrey De Grey

#41. Biologically and temperamentally ... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

Benjamin Spock

#42. Biologically I'm 25, chronologically I'm 53, psychologically it varies.

Deepak Chopra

#43. Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

Jill Bolte Taylor

#44. Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

P. J. O'Rourke

#45. Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

H.G.Wells

#46. We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.

Noam Chomsky

#47. I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance.

Abhijit Naskar

#48. The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market - it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself.

Erich Fromm

#49. The energy industry is filled with toxic people that are following a corporate government subsidized known biologically toxic agenda.

Steven Magee

#50. I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

David Liss

#51. I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.

James D. Watson

#52. Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.

Lauryn Hill

#53. War and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

Riane Eisler

#54. You're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss what we haven't had, you and I. Biologically. Ask Sigmund Freud. It is revealed in dreams. The absent touch of warm limbs at night, the absent

Muriel Spark

#55. Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today ... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

Benito Mussolini

#56. Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

Leo Buscaglia

#57. I think too often we forget that girls can like sport; we are not biologically programmed to detest it, we are - in the main - conditioned against it. But shouldn't we try to change that?

Anna Kessel

#58. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache ... The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.

Brene Brown

#59. As Darwin said by keeping women at home their achievements were paltry compared to men's which proved women were biologically inferior. And he should know because he was a Genius. You probably learned about him at school.

Jacky Fleming

#60. Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

Robert A. Burton

#61. Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Samuel P. Huntington

#62. For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Robert Briffault

#63. Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Ruth Benedict

#64. Every person is highly individualized so if a person is seriously concerned, then they first need to get a medical evaluation and make sure there's nothing biologically going on to prevent them from climaxing.

Drew Pinsky

#65. Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

Janine Benyus

#66. The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#67. The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#68. The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people.

Steven Magee

#69. Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.

Abhijit Naskar

#70. A man is biologically incapable of giving 'the look'.

Fennel Hudson

#71. Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had nothing to do with the kind of person he might actually be.

Lynne Rae Perkins

#72. Your health is not something you biologically lose as you age. It is something you build or give away a little each day, in what you do, and what you don't do.

Jayson Calton

#73. Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

#74. People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.

Robert Paul Weston

#75. Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Desmond Morris

#76. [Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

Dana Goldstein

#77. The principles governing the speed at which the human organism can biologically adapt offer us the single greatest insight into why civilizations succeed and fail as well as the most reliable preview of our own destiny.

Rebecca D. Costa

#78. You are not what you think you are. Instead of the form staring back at you when you look in the mirror, what you should imagine is your body as a collection of multiple dynamic ecosystems made up of very tiny, and very biologically diverse, organisms.

Rob DeSalle

#79. I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

Nancy Friday

#80. As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

Emily Procter

#81. had no name for the color blue but managed rather well without it - we stayed for a long part of our history culturally, not biologically, color blind.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#82. Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

Rene Dubos

#83. If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

John B. S. Haldane

#84. Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

Warren Farrell

#85. Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

Margaret Mead

#86. If Bruce Jenner says he's woman then I'm not gonna argue with him. I know what obviously and biologically he is.

Rick Santorum

#87. Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are ... well ... human beings.

Terry Pratchett

#88. Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.

Mayim Bialik

#89. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

Dan Lipinski

#90. So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

E. O. Wilson

#91. The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

David Suzuki

#92. If you don't remove your hands immediately, I will render you unable to biologically maintain life.

Kaede Kouchi

#93. You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different.

George Orwell

#94. The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

#95. If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections ... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

Newt Gingrich

#96. Whenever my behavior is biologically determined or socially conditioned, it is not truly free. To act freely, according to Kant, is to act autonomously. And to act autonomously is to act according to a law I give myself - not according to the dictates of nature or social convention.

Michael J. Sandel

#97. Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#98. Indigenous people have been tracking the same 'psychic virus' for many centuries, calling it 'wetiko' in Cree (windigo in Ojibwa, wintiko in Powhatan), a term that refers to a biologically wicked person or spirit who terrorizes others by means of evil acts.

Paul Levy

#99. I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#100. God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

Ronald Reagan