Biological Quotes

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets.

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it.

The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

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

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

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

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.