Systems Biology Quotes

#1. We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

Mark Hyman

#2. The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.

Merlin Donald

#3. I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Don Bluth

#4. You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.

Stephen Spender

#5. To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

James Russell Lowell

#6. When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

Linda Chavez

#7. People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Kitty Kelley

#8. In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.

John M Barry

#9. We listen, we praise, we walk in the direction of God's voice, and we obey. It's that simple. Sometimes that means we get to unbind and celebrate. Sometimes it means we don't.

Angie Smith

#10. I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.

Marissa Mayer

#11. Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Gwendolyn Brooks

#12. Translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Leonardo Sciascia

#13. The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.

Billy Graham

#14. Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences

Ilya Prigogine

#15. I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

Frans De Waal

#16. Most people - and I'm guilty of it as well - think of passion as hot, fiery, impulsive. But listening to you made me realize that passion can be a deep, warm, steady flame too. The kind of fire that keeps a man warm at night - or melts an ice wall that would drown a flashier spark.

Rowan Speedwell

#17. The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.

Leroy Hood

#18. I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.

William Carey

#19. The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

William A. Dembski

#20. Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity and thereby giving rise neogenetically to emergent properties.

Clifford Grobstein

#21. Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the pink sort. He was a big blonde man, with Viking bristle to eyebrows and mustache.

Alison Jolly

#22. Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.

Charles Frazier