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
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
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
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
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
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
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I've always been very aware of environment. When I was a kid I wanted to be a marine biologist until I realized… — Maria Cornejo 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
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger 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
Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery Copy Share Image
A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer,… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould 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
You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their… — Auguste Comte 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
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 monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image