I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been… — Gillian Anderson 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
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or… — E. O. Wilson 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
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober 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
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
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
I don't think in biology it's very controversial at all. Whether certain behavior is culture or is not culture is argued. I… — Hal Whitehead 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
The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply… — David Papineau 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
As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all… — James Gleick 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was… — Leonardo DiCaprio 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
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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