“The closest cultural mention I could find involved the medieval belief that sinister women could suck penises deep into their depths, a theory that cast the vagina as some kind of very cool, very judicious underwater cave.”— Lillian Stone, melmagazine.com
“So I'm not gonna teach you anything in here, okay? If you keep your mouth shut, you get an A. If you say anything to anybody, you get an F. Welcome to AP Bio.”— Donick Cary, Jack Griffin, Glenn Howerton, imdb.com
“Tenth grade biology. Brachial artery...pumps 30 liters of blood a minute. There's only five in the human body. I'm sorry.”— Chris Morgan, Larry Cohen, Jessica Martin, Kim Basinger, imdb.com
“It's cool, that you're strong and I respect it, I do. But in the end, everybody breaks, bro. It's biology.”— Mark Boal, Dan, Jason Clarke, imdb.com
“Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic. We've seen plenty of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care facilities. But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth of today's woke…”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“I have been working out the wrong problem. Thousands of words on the wrong problem. I have perfected a two-handed backhand to clobber the lob that is coming at me that is: the wrong problem. I have aced the wrong problem.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, thecut.com
“Name a modern blight, and someone, somewhere, is ready to blame it for messing with the modern libido.”— Kate Julian, theatlantic.com
“Technology changes. Human biology doesn’t.”— Tracey Rice, Patrick Cunnane, Tom Kirkman, Kiefer Sutherland, imdb.com
“But there’s no doubt that whatever their brains look like, behavior and school performance differences between men and women are strongly shaped by socialization.”— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com
“It was just what I, and every other egotistical human being, longs to hear. You’re not weird; the rest of the world is.”— Michelle Ruiz, bonappetit.com
“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…”— Oliver Sacks, en.wikiquote.org
“I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.”— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com
“It was found that broth in which the mould had been grown at room temperature for one or two weeks had acquired marked inhibitory, bacteriocidal and bacteriolytic properties to many of the more common pathogenic bacteria.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.”— Kip Thorne, theguardian.com
“Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It’s very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.”— Gerald Edelman, discovermagazine.com
“Since biological organisms are constructed from molecules, and those molecules from atoms, and the atoms from elementary particles — all obeying the laws of quantum mechanics — it might even be argued that research on human organizations is merely a rather baroque branch of physics.”— Herbert A. Simon, amazon.com
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that w…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, huffingtonpost.com
“Biologically, the man must pursue the woman. If you bring up sex all the time, you will emasculate him. Act as if you’re a Rules girl on a first date. Be coy. Flirt when he tries to kiss you or bite your neck. This will turn him into a tiger.”— Ellen Fein, amazon.com
“It is possible that Athena, in fact, knows I am female. Female octopuses, like female humans, possess estrogen; she could be tasting and recognizing mine. Octopuses can taste with their entire bodies, but this sense is most exquisitely developed in their suckers. Athena's is an exceptionally intimat…”— Sy Montgomery, amazon.com