Quotes about Biologist

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger. Votes: 4

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think. Votes: 3

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist Votes: 3

Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public. Votes: 3

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. Votes: 3

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public. Votes: 3

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant. Votes: 1

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist. Votes: 1

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. Votes: 1

I've had kids come to me and say, 'Oh, I loved your movie when I was a kid, and I became a marine biologist.' It's crazy. Votes: 1

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted. Votes: 1

I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something. Votes: 1

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences. Votes: 1

When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist. Votes: 1

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world. Votes: 1

As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water. Votes: 1

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success. Votes: 1

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists. Votes: 1

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain. Votes: 1

I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge. Votes: 1

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. Votes: 1

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept. Votes: 1

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth. Votes: 1

I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist. Votes: 1

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene. Votes: 1

I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in the life of one specific species for years and study every aspect of its behavior until little by little, all of these patterns become clear. That would be great, but I don't know if I have it left in me. Votes: 1

The biologist passes. The frog stays the same. Votes: 0

I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist. Votes: 0

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist. Votes: 0

Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist. Votes: 0

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena Votes: 0

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper Votes: 0

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. Votes: 0

No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. Votes: 0

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term "˜meme' for a unit of cultural imitation. Votes: 0

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something. Votes: 0

I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves. Votes: 0

It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years. Votes: 0

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. Votes: 0

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear. Votes: 0

You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens. Votes: 0

Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom. Votes: 0

It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it. Votes: 0