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Biologist Inspirational Quotes (4245)

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We've found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there's a slight delay in metamorphosis if you expose them to ten, there's even more of a delay. No single compound will do this.
Tyrone Hayes
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Life learned early on to recognize itself.
Lynn Margulis
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The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.
Ursula Goodenough
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The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.
Ursula Goodenough
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Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .
Ursula Goodenough
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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
Ursula Goodenough
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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle
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The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.
Gregor Mendel
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
John Boyd Orr
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Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.
Anne Fausto-Sterling
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When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.
George Wald
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I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine
John James Audubon
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Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.
Valerius Geist
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
Aristotle
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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
Sylvia Earle
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You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.
Joan Slonczewski
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Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
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I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.
Bill Mollison
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I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.
Jacob Bronowski
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Let us have sweet girl graduates by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom and the golden hair will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
Thomas Huxley
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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
Aristotle
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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Aristotle
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Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.
Jacob Bronowski
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The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
Rudolf Virchow
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