"The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist……" — Ernst Boris Chain

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• If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and… — Alfred Kinsey
• Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects… — Albert Claude
• Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be… — Oswald Avery
• We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer;… — James Jeans
• By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged… — H. L. Mencken
• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the… — John B. S. Haldane
• I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big… — Richard Dawkins
• Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative… — George Wald
• Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as… — Phillip E. Johnson

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