Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
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
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.
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.
I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist
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 weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
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.
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence. . . I had to place myself amidst the variation.
Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.
You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness.
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.
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.
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 grew up amongst biologists.
I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.
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 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.
I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena