Quotes About Biology Animals

#1. Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Lewis Thomas

#2. We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Tim Burton

#3. I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.

Isabella Rossellini

#4. Major benefits of having toned abdominal muscles: Improves digestion and elimination: The process of peristalsis (food moving through the digestive track) is greatly improved when you practice ab and stomach exercises.

Howard Van Es

#5. No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

ASAP Ferg

#6. All social animals, including people, live under constant pressure from two competing interests: protecting themselves from others and aligning themselves with others. When these two interests are balanced, the result is dynamic social homeostasis.

Mystery

#7. An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.

Ernst Haeckel

#8. It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

John O'Keefe

#9. People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

Pete Rozelle

#10. I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

Diane Sawyer

#11. You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

Roman Vishniac

#12. It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

Marc Bekoff

#13. 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.

Harald Zur Hausen

#14. I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

Angie Stone

#15. The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Napoleon Hill

#16. The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.

Mario J. Molina

#17. 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.

Marston Bates

#18. There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

Frans De Waal

#19. Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Elizabeth Blackburn

#21. I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

Blake Lively

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

Walter Gilbert

#23. Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Elizabeth Janeway

#24. Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

Alysia Reiner

#25. Strictly by the nature of 'Veep,' in any given moment, a lot can go wrong.

Kevin Dunn

#26. The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most nearly allied to him, than they are from one another.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#27. Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

Kevin Patterson

#28. The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

Jamaica Kincaid

#29. But you can't just believe in Him to be free from your stronghold. You must believe Him. Believe He can do what He says He can do. Believe you can do what He says you can do. Believe He is who He says He is. And believe you are who He says you are.

Beth Moore