Biologist Quote by Aharon Katzir

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

— Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

— Richard Dawkins

Of necessity, a scientist typically studies one incredibly tiny sliver of some biological system, totally ensconced within one discipline, because even figuring out how…

— Robert Sapolsky

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as…

— Michael Polanyi

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical…

— Asa Gray

If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be…

— Peter Medawar

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

— Yann Martel

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

— Anonymous

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

— Jose Padilha

As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So…

— James Rothman