Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.
I'm a biologist, so. . . Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about math and science. Well we don't know enough about science and particularly biology, which is such a huge field.
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence. . . I had to place myself amidst the variation.
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.
Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.
Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed.
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.
I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
I grew up amongst biologists.
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
Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.
If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.
I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.
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.
I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the beauty of how we come to know things in biology. Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.
