If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
A certain kind of methodologically-minded philosopher of science is quick to read off metaphysical conclusions from features of scientific practice. Chemists don't… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
What I mean by it, and roughly what most biologists who talk about culture mean by it, is either behavior itself, or… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all,… — Willie Aames Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image