Lydia Millet

Without even knowing why, we believe that to learn how to be human - which we have many years to do, for human beings have longer childhoods than any other species, a feature that to biologists and philosophers alike is one of our race's distinguishing characteristics - children must be surrounded by animal imagery.

American Novelist

Leonardo DiCaprio

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.

American Actor

Barry Barish

Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.

American Physicist

Christian de Duve

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.

Belgian Scientist

Tom Hodgkinson

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.

British Writer

Sheldon Lee Glashow

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Edith Widder

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

American Scientist

Ashley Roberts

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

American Musician

Ricky Schroder

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

Lars Mikkelsen

I would be the worst biologist in the world!

Danish Actor

Biologists specialize in various fields, so context determines their specific role.

Field Specific

A biologist usually does research, which can be fieldwork or lab work.

Research Focus

The title 'biologist' implies professional expertise, not just interest.

Professional Title

Becoming a biologist requires formal education and degrees in biology.

Academic Path

Hands-on experience through internships is crucial for student biologists.

Internship Importance

Biology students may assist in research before leading their own projects.

Gradual Progress

 leopard for years for years probably ever since i was a little kid when i first saw one i thought it was a picture of something that wasn't real a made-up animal and as you kind of dream of becoming a wildlife filmmaker and a biologist the snow leopard's pretty much the one animal that you really never think you're going to be able to see

Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...

 and as a tree climber that's been extremely valuable and important to our project working on birds of paradise and so for me I was a biologist mostly working on birds of paradise that I could see from the ground or near the ground and there's a lot of them but there are plenty that I wouldn't have been able to have access to at all if it

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 or well coordinated legs for running if you're a fox. But, what does this all have to do with evolution? Turns out, biologists can use these various body symmetries to figure out which animals are related to which. For instance, we saw that starfish and sea urchins have five-fold symmetry. But really what we should have said was

The science of symmetry...

 could not be explained by physics and chemistry -- that life had to be more than just mechanism. But people no longer think that. As biologists got on with the job of explaining the properties of living systems in terms of physics and chemistry -- things like metabolism, reproduction, homeostasis --

Your brain hallucinates...

 Anatomical structures, or physiological mechanisms, with no apparent purpose present challenges to evolutionary biologists. Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose

Why do we hiccup? - John...

 So, how did they accomplish this feat? Until recently, marine biologists thought of larval fish as largely passive drifters, dispersed by ocean currents to distant locales. But in the last 20 years, new research has suggested that larvae may not be as helpless as they seem,

The secret lives of baby...

 and was believed to have died out during the same mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. To biologists and paleontologists, this creature was a very old and fascinating but entirely extinct fish, forever fossilized.

The coelacanth: A living...

 This little story highlights what biologists call the endosymbiotic theory, the current best explanation of how complex cells evolved. There's a lot of evidence that supports this theory, but let's look at three main pieces.

How we think complex...

 and then the product should come back right as it does in the natural world life is really good at this so there's a bunch of people biologists who study molting and who studies the shedding of

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 I'm a marine biologists professionally. I spent a lot of time at sea and have seen a large variety of different wildlife. This was absolutely definitely not a basking shark.