quotes about Biologist

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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

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

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

Source : "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.

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No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.
-- G. Ledyard Stebbins

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The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
-- Jean Rostand

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

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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

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

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I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.
-- Jeff Corwin

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“We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.”
“Nature compensates for its mistakes.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.”
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.”
“It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I was in college, I'd heard that one in four women would be raped, and I thought, God, that means I must know someone who was raped. Sure enough, I found out a week later that a friend had been. A billion is too big because one is too big.”
“To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.”
“Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.”
“What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.”

Source : "Westboro Baptist Church Leader Talks Supreme Court Ruling; Sen. Durbin, Rep. Hensarling on Budget Battle". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2011.
“We were young, we were wild, we were restless Had to go, had to fly, had to get away Took a chance on that feelin' We were lovin' blind borderline wreckless We were livin' for the minute we were spinnin' in Baby we were alot of things, but we weren't crazy”
“Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.”