Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. Francis Crick
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. Thomas Henry Huxley
Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises. Albert Memmi
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media. Ben Stein
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible. Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed. John Maynard Smith