Biologists Quotes
52 quotes by 45 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth…
— Michael Denton
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,…
— Richard Leakey
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It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.
— John Maynard Smith
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Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists…
— Louis Agassiz
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Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region,…
— Bill Mollison
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Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed…
— Niles Eldredge
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Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed.
— Aharon Katzir
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The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists,…
— Odell Shepard
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Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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