Biology

"According to the science of biology, people were not created. They have evolved. And they certainly did not evolve to be equal."

"What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later, mechanisms added to the earlier ones. While Occams razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology."

"Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries, and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. Biology is also more important than physics, as measured by its economic consequences, by its ethical implications, or by its effects on human welfare."

"Biology is not physics, because organisms are such complex physical objects, and sociology is not biology because human societies are made by self-conscious organisms. By pretending to a kind of knowledge that it cannot achieve, social science can only engender the scorn of natural scientists and the cynicism of the humanists."

"Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because - the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe - it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify mans relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position, since of all the disciplines it is the one that endeavors to go most directly to the heart of the problems that must be resolved before that of human nature can even be framed in other than metaphysical terms."

"For a biologist the alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all."

"For me biology is my life, my motive to life and is in my blood and even my soul.let is way to live. Its a connection between you and your God."

"Scientists studying the inner workings of the human organism have found no soul there. They increasingly argue that human behaviour is determined by hormones, genes and synapses, rather than free will - the same forces that determine the behaviour of chimpanzees, wolves and ants."

"Today, nearly all biologists acknowledge that evolution is a fact."

"[A]ll of modern biology is an affirmation of this relatedness of the many species of living things and of their gradual divergence from one another over the course of time."

"No biologist today would think of submitting a paper entitled "New evidence for evolution;" it simply has not been an issue for a century."

"Complexity has always been difficult to resolve and to understand. Evolutionary biologists were among the first scientists to recognize this problem, when they dug their way toward new theories about evolution. They discovered that matter does not lack purpose."