Biologist Quotes

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If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. — Nicolas Cage
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to… — Willie Aames
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring… — Judith Hand
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their… — Alfred Kinsey
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not… — Albert Claude
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of… — James Jeans
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are… — George Wald
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists… — Phillip E. Johnson
There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and… — Richard P. Feynman
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public. — Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading… — Dennis Flanagan
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches. — Auguste Comte
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way… — Lancelot Hogben
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an… — Michael Denton
I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the… — Darrel R. Falk

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