B Quotes
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“Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.”
“Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.”
“Biomass, which basically is a fancy-sounding name for wood, is one of the old, reliable renewables that can produce energy when it is needed. The problem for the planet is that wood is often imported from US forests in diesel-driven ships, and emits MORE carbon dioxide than even coal when it is burned. Biomass is categorized by the EU only as carbon dioxide free because it is hoped that felled trees will be replanted and over many future decades will soak up as much carbon dioxide as was released by its burning. Needless to say, this is dubious accounting at best.” -p. 108”
“Biomasses are a biological reality that cannot be denied as existing, but even though they exist physically, yet they have not attained the height of Homo sapiens”
“Biomedicine locates sickness in a specific place in an individual body: a headache, a stomachache a torn knee, lung cancer. Medical anthropologists instead locate sickness and health in three interconnected bodies: the political, the social, and the physical. The prevailing political economy impacts the distribution of sickness and health in a society and the means available to heal those who are sick. For example, poor individuals worldwide are more exposed to toxins that make them sick, while the rich stay healthier. The social body constructs the meanings and experiences surrounding particular physical states. It determines the ideal physical body, legitimizing biomedical practices like plastic surgery to attain it. The social body also determines the boundaries of the physical body.
Some cultures locate sickness not in individuals but instead in families or communities. As any caregiver knows, we live the sickness too. And while biomedicine can cure diseases it flounders with permanent hurts, troubles of the mind, states present from birth or that are incurable or progressive. In biomedicine, these states are stigmatized and feared. We medical anthropologists have a term for this: social death.”
Source: Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass
“Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.”
“Biomimicry is critical in regard to using design as a way to solve problems in business. Biological ecosystems have invented solution after solution to all kinds of problems. The key is to learn to see nature through nature's eyes, and to speak nature's language and then to establish a continuous translation between biological ecosystems and human ecosystems.”
“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.”
Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
“Biomimicry is known for its design applications. But biomimicry also has an abundance of business applications. When businesses learn from nature and apply what they learn; the results include greater efficiency and more profit, among other things.”
“Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.”
Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
“Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."”
“Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.”
“Bionic technology, though certainly a form of creativity, also seems to be a kind of madness.”
Source: Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman
“Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.”
“Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.”
“Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.”
Source: We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism
“Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.”
“Biopolitics is characterized by, 'You should do it!' through excessive exertion of discipline and punishment; psychopolitics is characterized by, 'You could do it!' through the compulsion of psychiatric therapies and excessive positivity; and technopolitics is characterized by, 'You would do it!' through the impulsion of marketing, branding, and selling one’s own digital identity via OnlyFans, Twitch, Instagram, and Twitter because of the allure of infinite digital potential and techno-power to create new virtual realities and live out the life of your dreams albeit synthetic and inauthentic as a means to subjugate the minds and bodies of people to behave certain desirable ways that benefit the techno-states’ algorithmic parameters and intuitively exert coercion and control through techno-discursive and non-discursive formations of knowledge-acquisition and pre-selection of algorithmic feeds that are preordained not to benefit the collective interest of humanity but through the survivability of the company as they demand it so.”
Source: Synthesis of Philosophy: On Aesthetics, Morality, Consciousness, and Global Justice
“Biopolymers have huge business implications. They add cyclicality to the economic ecosystem, therefore making possible new business opportunities that didn't exist before, and allowing those businesses to have a healthy relationship with the natural environment at the same time.”
“Biopsychosocial discourse often portrays these patients as possessing unhealthy personality traits, such as ‘maladaptive perfectionism’ [67,68]; yet such assertions are not well supported, many studies find no significant differences between ME/CFS patients and the general population with regard to distinctive personality profiles [69–72]. A Swedish study of physicians’ attitudes to CFS found that physicians often downgrade the seriousness of this illness to ‘non-disease’ status and view patients as being ‘illness focused’, ‘demanding’, and ‘medicalising’ [73]. Given community-based doctors have limited knowledge of ME/CFS [74] and doctors display high levels of skepticism in this illness domain [75], it is unsurprising that many patients with ME/CFS report problematic clinical interactions [29–31,76]. Patient surveys conducted by patient organizations confirm high levels of patient dissatisfaction in the medical encounter.”
“Biosolids integration presents one of the biggest opportunities for courageous municipal leadership.”
“Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé avoir' [it is easy to see].”
Source: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
“Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].”
“Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.”
“Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.”
“Biotechnology: from cellular mastery to societal progress.”
“Biotechnology has made it technologically possible to build the monster; patent law is making it politically possible.”
Source: Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technology.
“Bioterrorism is like earthquakes, you should think in order of magnitudes. If you can kill 10 people that's a one, 100 people that's a two... Bioterrorism is the thing that can give you not just sixes, but sevens, eights and nines.”
“Biowarfare attacks are now a possibility.”
“Bioweapons? No Iraq was the proof to the world that America will never bow down. We went to Iraq not to deliver justice but to show who ran things around here.”
“BiPAP machines are used to treat breathing problems during sleep that are caused by neurological problems in the brain.”
“Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.”
“Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.”
“Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.”
“Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.”
“Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.”
“Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear is that politics will not stop at the water's edge simply because presidents plead for it. American foreign policy will return to the tradition of Truman and Vandenberg only when the American public demands it.”
“Bipedalism is a demanding and risky strategy. It means refashioning the pelvis into a full load-bearing instrument. To preserve the required strength, the birth canal in the female must be comparatively narrow. This has two very significant immediate consequences and one longer-term one. First, it means a lot of pain for any birthing mother and greatly increased danger of fatality to mother and baby both. Moreover, to get the baby's head through such a tight space it must be born while it's brain is still small - and while the baby, therefore, is still helpless. This means long-term infant care, which in turn implies solid male-female bonding.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.”
“Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.”
“Bipolar disorder was like that: a wild party that was constantly on the verge of ending, chaos and bright lights, an exaltation of the senses. That was mania. But all parties had their end, and when the shadows were long and the glitter had lost its sparkle and gathered to mingle with the dust on the unclean floors and all the food lost its flavor and the music finally died—that was depression, lurking in between all of the dark spaces of the noise and the laughter, as unavoidable as death or darkness.”
Source: Batter My Heart
“Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.”
“Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Zyclothymia, Rapid Cycling und gemischte Formen." Kurze Pause. Geschulter Blick. "Weißt du was Kristopher war?"
"Ja", sage ich, "mein Bruder.”
Source: Nicht weg und nicht da
“Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.”
Source: Letters from a Bipolar Mother
“Bippity boppity fuck”
Source: Fairytales From Verania
“Bir adam bir köpeğin başını okşuyor demek, evren evreni okşuyor demek; bir çocuk küçük bir köpekle oynuyor demek, evren evrenle oynuyor demek! Eğer evren bir tiyatro oyunuysa emin olabiliriz ki sadece tek bir oyuncu var. Evrenin kendisi! Gördüğümüz her şey aynı oyuncudur!”
“Bir adamı çok yüksek bir dağın tepesine koy, dünya denen tablonun bütününü görsün, ona yine de bilgelik kazandıramazsın! Ama aynı adam ovalarda ve vadilerde dolaşsın ve sonra da kendi gücüyle dağın zirvesine çıksın, işte o zaman ona bilgelik kendiliğinden gelecektir!”
“Bir adamın altın kalbi olduğu sürece, kanının yeşil ya da derisinin mavi olmasının hiçbir önemi yoktur!”
“Bir amaç peşinde çok fazla koştun, biraz ara ver, biraz da hiçbir amaç gütmeden yürü, tamamen amaçsızca dolaş, zihnine ve ruhuna iyi gelecektir!”
“Bir an gelir birini seversiniz. O iyi ya da kötü olduğu için hissetmezsiniz bunu. Sadece seversiniz. Bu sonsuza dek birlikte olacağınız anlamına gelmez. Birbirinizi incitmeyeceğiniz anlamına da gelmez. Yalnızca seversiniz. Bazen olduğu kişiye rağmen, bazense olduğu kişi yüzünden. Ve onun da sizi sevdiğini bilirsiniz. Kimi zaman sırf siz olduğunuz için, kimi zamansa size rağmen.”
Source: Incubus Dreams