“My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity of the wonder of innumerable forms of life has always thrilled me beyond anything else.” FirstsStillsFormNaturalMy OwnWonderDiversityGardenLondonBiologyMuseumsAdolescenceFirst LoveMondayZoosNatural History Author:Oliver Sacks
“Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.” FirstsChildrenNaturalBehindsModernPhysicsMathematicalBiologyChemistryNatural ScienceRetarded Author:Michael Crichton
“What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.” Has BeensNaturalMajorsOddBiologyMechanismDiscoveringSelectionAdaptationNatural SelectionFundamentalistEvolutionary Biology Author:Stephen Jay Gould