Human Biology Quotes

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo.

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

… we think once we do activate a genome, that yes, it probably will impact people’s thinking about life.

Oh here's an idea: let's make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine's Day. That's not weird at all.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the demand of the moment.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'

You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.