Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
"Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task."
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Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death."
Walter Gilbert
Biochemist
"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion."
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"DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created."
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"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."
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"I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue."
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"If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology."
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"On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round"
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"Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery."
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"Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness"
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"It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous."
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"What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality."
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"The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do."
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"What least makes a mother is biology."
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"Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet."
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"Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity."
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"Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally."
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