I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological…

No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or more sexes;…

— Ronald Fisher

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis…

— Aaron Klug

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and…

— Odell Shepard

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

— John B. S. Haldane

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after…

— Anonymous

Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.

— Will Cuppy

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are…

— John Maynard Smith

I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical…

— Wolfgang Paul

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist,…

— George Trumbull Ladd

... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

— H. L. Mencken

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.

— Jean Rostand