Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical, cultural and biological connections, is that associated with food plants.
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean sky, struggle toward acc...
