If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.
Richard Preston
RootsYouBiologyKnowWillTouch
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
MeDoctorDeepLovedUniqueBiology
In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.
Leroy Hood
BiologyLateDNAHumanProjectFour
The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.
Gregory Stock
AgingImmigrationLookBiology
When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.
George M. Church
PeopleThinkingYouBiologyPersonal
One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
BiologyWhyCellsThingsDifferent
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
David Brin
WorkScienceYouBiologyFindMore
The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated.
Alex Berenson
PeopleSickMedicineEasyBiology
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
Rebecca Skloot
BiologyClassFirstPointCells
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.
Paul Davies
LieBiologyStreetWillAnswerNor
In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.
Neri Oxman
NatureEndDesignBiologyTransition
As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Kathleen Rubins
BiologyCaliforniaUniversityDiego
I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.
Dave Eggers
ScienceSchoolHigh SchoolBiology
There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'
Walter O'Brien
BiologyChemistryGoingBecauseKids
We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
Sam Kean
LookBiologyBeyondHumanBecause
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
Kary Mullis
WritingDoingBiologyLikeAbout
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
Dan Gable
EducationCollegeBiologyWrestling
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
FutureScienceHatePastBiology
It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.
John O'Keefe
ProgressMedicineBiologyWantGoing
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.
Michael Behe
WorldBlackViewBiologyNowBoxes
I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really sort of the study of the human being.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
BiologyNewSociologyHumanStudy
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
Trofim Lysenko
NatureAppearanceBiologyLiving
Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.
Ryan Bethencourt
TechnologyWorldBiologyUnderstand
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
Michael Polanyi
PhysicsBiologyChemistrySameThing
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