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Biologist   /baɪˈɑlədʒɪst/   Listen
Biologist

noun
1.
(biology) a scientist who studies living organisms.  Synonym: life scientist.



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"Biologist" Quotes from Famous Books



... not question for a moment, that while the Mathematician is busy with deductions from general propositions, the Biologist is more especially occupied with observation, comparison, and those processes which lead to general propositions. All I wish to insist upon is, that this difference depends not on any fundamental distinction in the sciences themselves, but on the accidents of their subject-matter, ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley

... he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1854 Prof. of Natural History at the School of Mines. Henceforth his life was a very full one, divided between scientific investigation and public work. He was recognised as the foremost English biologist, and was elected Pres. of the Royal Society 1883. He served on the London School Board and on various Royal Commissions. His writings are in the main distinguished by a clearness, force, and charm which entitle them to a place in literature; and besides the addition which they ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin

... No; no use arguing from the point of view of the biologist and chemist, Brenton. It won't do you any good, nor me any harm. It's in me; I don't know whence or wherefore, so save your breath and use it on other things. I think your ancestry is all accounted for. As to environment: what does your ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... father's brother who had gone in for science—deciding against the army and the church—Professor Bramwell Winton, the biologist. He lived ...
— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post

... for having read; while the Press generally agreed that the author, besides being an incorrigible enthusiast and optimist, was also—a woman; but no one ever succeeded in penetrating the veil of anonymity and discovering that "Pilgrim" and the biologist were ...
— Four Weird Tales • Algernon Blackwood

... Section of Mathematical Sociology or Humanology: composed of at least one sociologist, one biologist, one mechanical engineer, and one mathematician. Their work would be the development of human engineering and mathematical sociology or humanology; promoting the progress of science; providing and supervising instruction ...
— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

... of mankind. Groping after some explanation of the natural phenomenon that the earth became fertile when water was applied to it, and that seed burst into life under the same influence, the early biologist formulated the natural and not wholly illogical idea that water was the repository of life-giving powers. Water was equally necessary for the production of life and ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... Gofredo, barely over the minimum Service height requirement; his name was Old Terran Spanish, but his ancestry must have been Polynesian, Amerind and Mongolian. Karl Dorver, the sociographer, six feet six, with red hair. Bennet Fayon, the biologist and physiologist, plump, pink-faced and balding. Willi Schallenmacher, with a bushy ...
— Naudsonce • H. Beam Piper

... dependent on the woman character and those that have, or seem to have, arisen through distinction of training or environment, which may be termed evolutionary differences, and are likely to be changed by altered conditions. Even the trained biologist is unable to draw an undisputed line of demarcation between the two kinds of differences, and, even if it were drawn, the conclusion would not help us very much. For with regard to these evolutionary differences that are liable to change many questions have to be considered. Can ...
— The Truth About Woman • C. Gasquoine Hartley



Words linked to "Biologist" :   Kendrew, Haeckel, phytologist, taxonomer, scientist, Thomas Huxley, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Louis Pasteur, taxonomist, biological science, George Wells Beadle, sociobiologist, bacteriologist, physiologist, ecologist, Carson, systematist, Huxley, Pasteur, beadle, cytologist, zoologist, Morgan, geneticist, Max Delbruck, natural scientist, Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, botanist, Thomas Hunt Morgan, George Beadle, Rachel Carson, biology, vivisectionist, Delbruck, plant scientist, Thomas Henry Huxley, carrel, Alexis Carrel, animal scientist, naturalist, Rachel Louise Carson



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