Biologists Quotes

52 Biologists quotes by 44 unique authors

If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing… — Niles Eldredge
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as… — Janine Benyus
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the… — J. Philippe Rushton
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is… — Freeman Dyson
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We… — Barbara Ehrenreich
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and… — Steven Pinker
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks… — E. O. Wilson
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove… — Victor J. Stenger
Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians. — H.G. Wells
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a… — Stephen Jay Gould
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. — Francis Crick
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most… — John B. S. Haldane
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. — Robin Ince
I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think. — Margaret Atwood
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to… — Tony Hoare
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes. — Robert Mankoff
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there… — David Christian
Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream,… — Joseph Monninger
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success. — Robin Marantz Henig
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and… — Jonathan Miller
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex… — Phillip E. Johnson
In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they… — Kenneth R. Miller

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