When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look…

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

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

About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most likely be…

— Seth Shostak

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have…

— Tony Hoare

Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed.

— Aharon Katzir

As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So…

— James Rothman

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

— Robert Mankoff

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

— Robin Ince

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way,…

— Jonathan Miller

If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline,…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a…

— Joseph Monninger

“Field biologists studying large and charismatic animals wanted to know if their own species had genetic problems. I listened carefully to stories of koalas…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

We are seeing a new wave of young biologists that are attacking old problems with new tools and fresh ideas, leading to new types…

— Arvind Gupta

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson