16 quotes
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
"Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune."
— Deepak Chopra
"The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve."
— Ludwig von Mises
"And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude."
— Carl Sagan
"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."
"The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else."
— Steven Pinker
"DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music."
— Richard Dawkins
"The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg."
"All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities"
"the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger."
— Erica Jong
"One hand has surely worked throughout the universe."
— Darwin
"We are all star stuff."
"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."
"No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their functions and actions."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought."
— Philip K. Dick
"History is biology's dumping ground"
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón