With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image
As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now.… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as… — Frances M. Beal Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its… — H. L. Mencken 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
I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp,… — Joe Lo Truglio 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
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image