Biologist Quotes

• Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

  Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke

  Biology, Ashamed, Shows

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• Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.

  George Wald

  Special, Generations, Alternatives

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• Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Health, Science, Light

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• Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Home, Science, Blow

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• Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Origin Of Life, Mind

  Francis Crick (2008). “What Mad Pursuit”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Morning, Believe, Science

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• What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Men, Keys

  "The Log from the Sea of Cortez". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 4, 1951.

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• Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Diversity, The End Of The Day

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• It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Ocean, Sea

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.

  Jeff Corwin

  Naturalist, Core

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• This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.

  Paul Nurse

  Research, Projects, Birmingham

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• To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Eugenics, Size, Problem

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

  Ricky Schroder

  Actors, Forests, Wildlife

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• And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that

  Amber Tamblyn

  Friends, Believe, Personal Opinions

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• Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Country, Thinking, Development

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing. Acting didn't come up until much later, probably about 16 or 17. I thought, "Oh, I quite like this."

  Freema Agyeman

  Marine, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  War, Titles, Marine Biologist

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• The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.

  Andre Michel Lwoff

  Knowledge, Science, Cells

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• Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Mistress, Unwilling

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• 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 when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Looks, Research

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

  January Jones

  Marine, Meteorologists, Wanted

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• I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Kids, Marine, Actresses

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• 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 work of biologists studying non-human species.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, People, Common

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• My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

  Steven Pinker

  Opinion, Philosopher, Human Nature

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Meaningful, Addresses, Monopoly

  Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press

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