About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which… — Phillip E. Johnson 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
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies… — Joseph Monninger Copy Share Image
“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have… — Kenneth Kamler Copy Share Image
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.” — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
“That many biologists were bound to get themselves into trouble sooner or later. If you've ever been to an Ichs and Herps… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical… — David Craig Copy Share Image
You go to the cosmologists and ask how they tell the history of the universe; you go to the geologists, how do… — David Christian Copy Share Image
In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA,… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
