"When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look……" — Robin Marantz Henig

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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
• 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
• There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is… — Richard P. Feynman
• It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One… — Dennis Flanagan
• In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry… — Auguste Comte
• In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from… — Michael Denton
• I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine… — Unknown Author
• The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval… — Michael Denton
• It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are… — Richard Leakey

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