Top 191 Biological Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Biological Quotes from famous people such as Max Winkler, Dia Mirza, Barry Commoner, Faith Salie, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren’t anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.
Max Winkler
I lost my biological father when I was 9, I lost my stepfather at 23. Both men had such a deep impact in my understanding of life.
Dia Mirza
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
Barry Commoner
I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack – a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance – of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.
Faith Salie
What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood – the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as ‘The Dog Master’ reveals, it is biological – we evolved together.
W. Bruce Cameron
When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we’ve measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.
Brian Greene
There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.
Helen Fisher
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
Gloria Steinem
If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support… autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
Karen DeCrow
I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It’s not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it’s social conditioning. And we can change it.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.
Michael Behe
The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.
Aaron Ciechanover
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
Allegra Huston
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
Anna Lindh
In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
Andrei Sakharov
Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.
Janine Benyus
I’ve got my roots in Northern Ireland – my biological father’s side of the family were from Belfast.
KT Tunstall
No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Thomas Szasz
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
Michael Behe
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
will.i.am
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.
Christopher Shays
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred – that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?
Lynn Margulis
In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.
Bruce Lipton
There may be a little bit of finger-pointing – there always is in a situation like this – but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It’s the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.
Richard Preston
The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity.
Charles B. Rangel
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford
The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.
Kip Thorne
When we’re talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.
John Sununu
Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.
Drew Endy
We all fall into biological and mental habits. It’s an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn’t do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship – all the things that we really crave.
Genesis P-Orridge
If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived

If I hadn’t been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in life-support systems for space.
Jane Poynter
When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.
Mike D
All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
Lyall Watson
Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
Luke Wilson
We’re not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
Panayiotis Zavos
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It’s something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.
Stephen LaBerge
To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.
Antonio Damasio
In my own career, I have always tried to treat my colleagues with respect and kindness, whoever they are, and am proud to have developed and mentored the careers of many excellent young scientists who will be tackling tomorrow’s biological problems long after I have left the scene.
Tim Hunt
People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.
Jeffrey C. Hall
Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually no waste.
Frances Arnold
In Darwin’s time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
Michael Behe
Leaders at the top of al Qaeda’s hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins – botulinum and salmonella – and the chemical poison cyanide.
Barton Gellman
It will be useful for you to know your biological age and maybe to change your lifestyle habits if you find you have short telomeres.
María Blasco Marhuenda
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect – food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
Joel Fuhrman
Sometimes ‘Frances’ can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Water is commonly regarded as the ‘solvent of life,’ since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells.
Peter Agre
I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man.
Shaun King
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashley Montagu
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
Bela Lugosi
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.
Desmond Tutu