## 4. BIOLOGY

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- 4. biology - general
- 4.1 biology poetry
- 4.2 biology quotes
- 4.3 biology puns
- 4.4 cloning
- 4.5 biochemistry
- 4.6 evolution
- 4.7 mice and rats
- 4.8 cell biology
- 4.9 bacteria

### 4.2 BIOLOGY QUOTES

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    Special Category: Francis Crick
    From: Philip Clarke <clar0318@flinders.edu.au>
    Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like
    trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it
    made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
    -- Francis Crick [British molecular biologist, 1916- ]

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    From: edftz@aol.com (Ed Fitzgerald)

    EVOLUTION
    Special Category: Jacques Monod
    [A] curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he
    understands it.
     -- Jacques Monod (1910-1979) _On the Molecular Theory of Evolution_ (1974)
    (French Biochemist, Nobel Prize Medicine 1965)

    Special Category: Francis Crick
    Orgel's Second Rule: Evolution is cleverer than you are.
     -- Francis Crick (British molecular biologist, 1916- ) quoted by
    Daniel C. Dennett in _Elbow Room_ (1984)

    Special Category: François Jacob
    Evolution is a tinkerer.
     -- Francois Jacob (French biochemist 1920- )"Evolution and Tinkering" (1977)

    From: kriman@acsu.buffalo.edu (Alfred M. Kriman)

    A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
     -- Samuel Butler _Life and Habit_ (1877)

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    Special Category: John B. S. Haldane
    @A: Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (British geneticist and writer, 1892-1964)
    @Q:     He seems to have an inordinate fondness for beetles.
    @%: When asked late in his life whether his studies had taught him anything
    about God that he might care to share.
    @%: JBS Haldane was an atheist.
    @%: Beetles comprise about a quarter of all known species.
    @Poster: Dan Case (V140PXGT@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu), who has had
    correspondence published in _The New Republic_, and others.

physics biology
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    From: gt4495c@prism.gatech.edu (Giannhs)

    Physics-envy is the curse of biology. -- Joel Cohen

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    [Natural Selection] has not vision, no foresight, no sight at all.  If it
    can be said to be play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the *blind*
    watchmaker.
     - Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-)in The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

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    However many ways there may be of being alife, it is certain that there are
    vastly more ways of being dead.
     - Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-)in The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

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    The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
     - Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-)in The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

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    They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their
    preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence ... they go by the
    name of genes, and we are their survival machines.
     - Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-)in The Selfish Gene (1976)

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    From: neve@up.univ-mrs.fr (Gabriel NEVE)

    "The death of the butterfly is the one drawback to an
    entomological career"
     - Margaret E. Fountaine (1892)

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    From: Ian Ellis <ian@iglou.com>
    "The species of whale known as the black right whale has four kilos
    of brains and 1,000 kilos of
         testicles. If it thinks at all, we know what it is thinking about."

         Jon Lien, "Whale Professor" at St. John's University, Newfoundland,
    speaking to the Norwegian Telegram
         Agency (spring 1995).

mathematics physics chemistry biology
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    Mencken, H. L. (1880 - 1956)
    It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort
    to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and
    chemistry.
    Notebooks, "Minority Report".

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    "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
    any proof." -- Ashley Montague

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    From: eclayton@trincoll.edu (Edward Clayton)

     "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
      intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".
            -Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed
             Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.

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    From: eclayton@trincoll.edu (Edward Clayton)

     "If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung
      cancer, it seems to be a minor one."
            -Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in
             the New York Times on April 14, 1954.

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    From: eclayton@trincoll.edu (Edward Clayton)

     "For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect."
            -Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in
             "Newsweek", Nov.18th 1963.

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    Special Category: John B. S. Haldane
    Special Category: Linus Pauling
    Every species of plant and animal is determined by a pool of germ plasm
    that has been most carefully selected over a period of hundreds of millions
    of years.  We can understand now why it is that mutations in these
    carefully selected organisms almost invariably are detrimental.  The
    situation can be suggested by a statement by Dr. J.B.S. Haldane: "My clock
    is not keeping perfect time.  It is conceivable that it will run better if
    I shoot a bullet through it; but it is much more probable that it will stop
    altogether."  Professor George Beadle, in this connection, has asked: "What
    is the chance that a typographical error would improve Hamlet?"
    - Linus Pauling (in "No more War!")

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    From:         scotth9999@aol.com (ScottH9999)
    Special Category: Louis Pasteur
    "[Louis Pasteur's]... theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction.
         "How do you think that these germs in the air can be numerous enough
    to develop into all these organic infusions? If that were true, they would
    be numerous enough to form a thick fog, as dense as iron."
          --Pierre Pochet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, "The Universe:
    The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Small" (1872); quoted in "The
    Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation",
    ed. by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, (NY: Pantheon Books, 1984),
    p. 30.

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    From: <xanthus@qni.com>
    Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than
    2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you
    were a creature, you just separated into two clones.
       --  Walters, Mark Jerome     The Harper Book of Quotations. Third Edition

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    Special Category: Norbert Wiener
    From: eugenio@ci.uminho.pt (Eugenio Campos Ferreira)

    "The best model of a cat is another cat or, better, the cat itself" - N.WIENER

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    From: sjb8502@ucs.usl.edu (Bienvenu Jay )

    "People are DNA's way of making more DNA." - Edward O. Wilson, 1975

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    From: milligan@smartlink.net (Michael M Milligan)

    Dr. Francis Gunther, known to his peers as the father of pesticide
    residue chemistry, once said regarding humankind's ever increasing
    ability to detect infinitestimal quantities of pesticides in food and
    the paranoia that attends it in the minds of some:

    "Yesterday we looked for little bits of a few things in some things;
    today we look for less of more things in anything; tomorrow we will
    look for nothing in everything."

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#### Subsections

- 4. biology - general
- 4.1 biology poetry
- 4.2 biology quotes
- 4.3 biology puns
- 4.4 cloning
- 4.5 biochemistry
- 4.6 evolution
- 4.7 mice and rats
- 4.8 cell biology
- 4.9 bacteria

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