Definition of Biology

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Biology

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

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Biology Quotations

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
Deepak Chopra

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
Richard Dawkins

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. Baldwin

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
E. O. Wilson

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
Thomas Huxley

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
James D. Watson

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
Auguste Comte

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
Jared Diamond

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
Jeremy Rifkin

Biology Translations

biology in French is biologie
biology in German is Biologie
biology in Swedish is biologi

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