Biology Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“Over the past sixty years a rather impressive assembly of respectable taxonomists and evolutionary biologists have tried to unseat the biological species concept for…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating…

— William King Gregory

“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ] to the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when…

— Charles Darwin

“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an evolutionary biologist,…

— Ernst Mayr

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin”

— Andrew Mayne

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with…

— Asa Gray

“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist.…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

— Konrad Lorenz

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature…

— Lewis Thomas