Biological Purpose Quotes

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they be "for"? Or what is the skeleton "for"? For keeping one upright, protecting organs, storing calcium, making blood cells...?

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.