Biologists Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biologyâ€™s last twenty years has inflamed… — Niles Eldredge
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
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
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
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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