33 Biologist Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Amber Tamblyn

I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was growing up and always wanted to be surrounded by wildlife. Ashley Roberts

Wildlife Always Surrounded Up Wanted Growing Growing Up Biologist Marine

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

Myself Animal Plant Animals Think Anything Among Biologist

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. Brian Skerry

What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist. Christian de Duve

Life Problem Living Define Features Major Looked Concerned Chemist Common Subtly Organisms Molecular Whole Living Organisms Biologist

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. Cobie Smulders

Life School Own Research Biology High Would Would-Be High School My Own Study Bahamas Like Cruz Until Sure Smooth Still Yeah Go Quit Graduated Maybe Just Wanted Center Santa Whole Even Even Now Now Biologist Marine

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

Life Everywhere Looked Mesmerized Just Wanted Biologist Marine

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. Elie Metchnikoff

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. Eric Kandel

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. Frans de Waal

Eyes Old Long Our Ancestors Systems Thousand Moral Thousand Years Only Had Institutions Couple Years Very Current Which Really Biologist

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. Frans de Waal

Time Best Me Animal Behavior Long Long Time Nothing Group One Thing Totally Bothered Student Category Limits Scientists Came Off Left Human Human Behavior Different After Which Then Separate Thing Biologist

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. Isabella Rossellini

Life Love Myself Great Me Behavior Become Field Every Immerse Would Would-Be Totally Clear Study Know Until Years Left Did Just Jane Patterns Little Aspect Species Specific Biologist

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. James Gleick

Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel. Jeffrey C. Hall

History Problem Word Other Worse Would Would-Be More Institutions Course Loose Yiddish Than Offering Any Informal Place Formidable Far User-Friendly Barriers Even Even Worse Fast Biologist University

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. Joe Lo Truglio

You Space Down Swimming Keys Unlike Kind Except Camp Up Quickly Ended Grew Place Which Then Explored Full Sea Appetite Florida Biologist Desire Marine

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. John B. S. Haldane

Socialism Problem Size Appears Largely Biologist

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist. Joseph DeRisi

Nerd Computer Well Always Been Serious Biologist

I would be the worst biologist in the world! Lars Mikkelsen

World Worst Would Would-Be Biologist

As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.' You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we've been and what little regard we have for the natural world. Leonardo DiCaprio

You Natural World Passion Kid Destructive Voice Equal Well Became Said How Been Going Maybe Regard Lend Little Realize Successful Natural World Lucky Actor Biologist Marine

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. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented! Pranav Mistry

Time You Engineer Architect Drew Invented Writer He Know Were Did Sketches Helicopters Painter Even Biologist

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