Biologist Quotes

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

Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

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

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."

No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

I grew up amongst biologists.

Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.

The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.