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We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology.

~Craig Venter

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Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Around Being Biology Distributed Effort Fashion Finite Fuels Globe Isolated Major Make More Much Now Number Oil Otherwise Right Same Shipping Us Very

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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: About Biology Boarding Boarding School Enough Experience Feelings Had Hundreds Only Pages Pigs School Smell Still Strong The Only Thing Thing Write I Can

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I loved the idea that biology was logical.

~Cynthia Kenyon

Topics: Biology Idea Logical Loved

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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

~Dan Gable

Topics: Biology College Double Education Had Major Physical Physical Education Wrestling

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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

~Dana Carvey

Topics: About Biology Existential Find Humanism Interesting More Politics Stuff Talk

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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Biology Children Geography Learn Literature Music Need Schools Something Way

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Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Actively Bear Biology Causes Cell Cells Cultural Dissolution Environments Finding Need Nutrients Off Phenomena Preserving Resemblance Social Some Striking Themselves

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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Again Apt Biology Broad Call Design Designs Emerge Environments Evolution Good Highly Independently Known Phenomenon Range Similar Successful Tricks Wherever

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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: About Biology Culture Evolving Fast Gene Genes Minds Natural Natural Selection Nor Our Result Selection

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