#biology

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. ↗

— Thomas Cochrane

#biology #morals #must #physics #realm

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#act #always #because #behaviour #being

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#being #biology #chain #every #gene

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#assumption #biology #chemistry #incorrect #meets

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#healing #health #health-care #medicine #art

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget. ↗

— Mary Roach

#death #life #mary-roach #science #death

The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her feet crossed on top of each other like a child's. He watched her sleep and struggled to see her as she was, but what he saw instead were her muscles and bones. He saw right through the skin to where her femur connected to her tibia by way of the ligaments, to the hair web of nerves and the delicate forest of her lungs, to the abstract heart pumping blood through her arteries. It terrified him how easily these systems could fail her. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#death #life #death

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep. ↗

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

#science #dreams

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. ↗

— David Marusek

#biology #consciousness #sentience #life

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#nature