Why Study Biological Sciences?

Don't take our word for it, see what other Biologists have to say...

A selection of views from the Internet

Ernst Mayer - This is Biology: The science of the living world

"Every educated person should have an understanding of basic biological concepts-evolution, biodiversity, competition, extinction, adaptation, natural selection, reproductive development, and a host of others. Overpopulation, the destruction of the environment, and the malaise of the inner cities cannot be solved by technological advances, nor by literature or history, but by measures that are based on an understanding of the biological roots of these problems"

Department of Life Sciences, Santa Rosa Junior College

"The full range of topics covered in the biological sciences include some of the most important aspects that affect human life on earth as well as in space. For example, the development and use of modern medicine has as its base, the understanding of cell structure and microbiology as well as the function of tissues, organs and organ-systems of the human body."

Professor David Patterson, University of Sydney

"Australia is a wonderful country for biologists to study, Australia's biology is legendary, the great barrier reef is universally recognised as an icon. But Australia is also a land of semi-arid deserts, of rain forests, mangroves and sea-grasses of mountains and hyper-saline lakes.

This richness of habitat has produced an amazing diversity of life: over 400,000 species live in Australia. These are of- ten distinctive and remark- able to overseas students, who will never have seen Kangaroos and eucalypt forests. This unusual biology makes us rethink the rules generated from observations on life in the northern continents. It is this remarkable land, with its biota, and intellectual challenges that is the context in which we find a University system that competes with the best in the world."

School of Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine

"No one can predict the future, but this much is known: the next century is the time of the biologist, who will be in the forefront of the most challenging, intellectual problems, such as understanding the most elemental building blocks of the mechanisms of life, the mechanisms of memory and of learning, the molecular basis of embryonic development, and the rules that help predict the behaviour of the environment. Biology also lies at the heart of major social problems that face the human race in the coming decade, such as sensible management of the environment and the effective control of human populations. It is vital that educated people understand the contributions that biological sciences have made and will continue to make for the future welfare of human beings."