Biological Quote by Jonathan Miller

My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have gone that…

— Margaret Atwood

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had…

— Roger Bannister

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked…

— Jonah Lehrer

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

— Peter Carey

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and I'm kind of half-neurobiologist, half-primatologist.

— Robert Sapolsky

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

— Eben Alexander

I started out as a neurologist. I then trained in neuropathology and was focused on neurodegeneration. So, for years, I studied Alzheimer's, aging, Parkinson's,…

— Ann McKee

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope,…

— Octavia Spencer

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact,…

— Eric Kandel

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran