Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public. — Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things. — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves. — Jane Hirshfield 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
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. — G. Ledyard Stebbins Copy Share Image
I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena. — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker 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
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
An evolutionary biologist and a fundamentalist may see the same chimpanzee sitting in a cage, but in another important way, they do… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but… — J. Philippe Rushton 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
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd 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
Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the… — Werner Arber 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
I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
My two older brothers are both molecular biologists and neuroscientists, and I feel like representing them accurately is never done in movies,… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The biologist was coming down the hillside. In all her glory and monstrosity.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image