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 grew up amongst biologists.

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

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

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."

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

The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

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

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

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.