A second biologist seemed to Benham to come nearer the gist of the dispute when he said that they were not discussing the importance of men, but their relative inequalities.
The biologist was temporarily incapacitated, and the talk went on over his prostrate attempts to rally and protest.
The biologist explains the present structure of an organ by tracing it back to simpler forms in lower animals until he reaches the germ from which it began.
The Biologist was foremost among the contenders; he seemed worried about the possibility of the alien Earthmen carrying pathogenic bacteria.
The Biologist smiled back and assured him that they would not think of taking a piece of apparatus so vitally necessary to the Earthmen.
By the time he was finished, the Biologist felt sure that any such creature was sufficiently far removed from them to be harmless biologically, but he wanted to study the Man of Earth further.
Arcot also asked for a skeleton to take with him, and the Biologist readily agreed.
The analogy, such as it is, is probably destined to be of more use to the biologist than to the sociologist.
Thus, in beginning The Principles of Biology, for instance, we are first asked to consider what truths the biologist takes for granted; e.
The antithesis between the sociologist and the conventional historian is comparable to that between the biologist and the descriptive naturalist.
Just as the descriptive naturalist justly resents any dictation from the biologist as to what is or is not worth observing, so the descriptive historian resents the sociologist's interference.
Blavatsky performed her astral manifestations was always a very subordinate and incidental one; the logical scientist, whether he happened to be physicist or biologist or psychologist, was quite convinced that Mme.
In the address, from which the opening words of this chapter are quoted, it is suggested that a capable biologist be set to deal with education, but he is to be freed "from all preconceived ideas derived from accepted tradition.
After such fundamentals as food and warmth, light, air and sleep, the first problems considered by this Biologist Educator are stages of growth, their appropriate activities, and the stimuli necessary to evoke them.
And it is impossible fully to understand why Froebel laid so much stress on spontaneous play unless we go deeper than the province of the biologist without in the least minimising the importance of biological knowledge to educational theory.
As the biologist defines play as "the natural manifestation of the child's activities," so Froedel says "play at first is just natural life.
But the biologist cannot devitalize a plant or an animal and revivify it again.
Each science or art is entitled to regard them from its own point of view; and when the biologist announces his classification he does not interfere with those based on other grounds.
Two main causes are known to the biologist as tending to induce the parasitic habit.
To understand the sustaining influence of Environment in the animal world, one has only to recall what the biologist terms the extrinsic or subsidiary conditions of vitality.
That the latter science is in a sense a division of the former is more often recognized by the biologist than by the average well-informed student of human social phenomena.
The biologist employs the identical methods used by the geologist in working out the past history of the earth's crust.
It may seem that the biologist is straying beyond his subject when he undertakes to extend the principles of organic evolution to those possessions of mankind that seem to be unique.
He did not wish that one who proposed to be a biologist should learn dissection during his school-days; that would come later, and, in the meantime, broader and deeper foundations had to be laid.
A biologist has no means of arriving at any conclusion as to the amount of time which may be needed for a certain quantity of organic change.
The biologist knows nothing whatever of the amount of time which may be required for the process of evolution.
The subject is of entrancing interest to the biologist and the physician, quite apart from its bearing on the question of spontaneous generation.
They have moreover a specific form, and every biologist who wishes to establish a parallel between the phenomena of the living and the mineral world is wont to compare living beings with crystals.
But it must be obvious to any biologist who has thoroughly considered the problem, that this experiment has little to do with the question of the cause of blindness in cave animals.
To-day its conclusion is accepted by influential clerics, such as the Dean of Westminster, and by almost every biologist and anthropologist of distinction in Europe.
When it was issued in Germany, a few years ago, a distinguishedbiologist wrote in the Frankfurter Zeitung that it would secure immortality for its author, the most notable critic of the idea of immortality.
The biologistwould say, in order that they may adapt themselves to their environment.
The biologist tells us that it is the constant and not the occasional in the environment that impresses itself on an organism.
And to-day, while the biologist may still debate the particular issue, we know that the conception of continuity and development has been of enormous service in every range of thought.
My reviser tells me that if the result of his labours leaves much to be desired, it is not to be wondered at, but that, being neither a biologist nor a philosopher, he has done his best to make me presentable to the English reader.
The biologist is dependent on the specificity of living objects as they occur in nature.
The biologist is not able to “make” life, as the physicist has made red rays or electromagnetism, or as the chemist has made a certain compound of carbon.
The biologistis almost always in that strange plight in which the physicist would be if he always had to go to volcanoes in order to study the conductivity of heat, or if he had to wait for thunderstorms in order to study electricity.
We are thus led to ask whether the biologist finds evidence that an animal's instincts can be thus changed in mode of expression.
It is not certain that either the biologist or the psychologist is prepared to answer the question.
The biologist has only himself to thank if he has overlooked a thing which lay directly under his nose.
Each biologist has a caraffa of light wine on the table before him, and all are smoking.
With this all controversy ceased, for the most grasping geologist or biologist would content himself with a fraction of that time.
Within the nuclear substance little bodies are developed, usually threadlike in form, which take on a deep stain, and which the biologist calls chromosomes.
The truth is that, as a rule, the pure biologist is engaged in work for the love of it, and nothing is further from his thoughts than the "practical" bearings or remote implications of what he may discover.
The latter end is attained further by the library of the institution, which is supplied with all the periodicals of interest to the biologist and with a fine assortment of technical books.
But that evening in the dim quietude of the piazza the biologist seemed to have recovered completely his mental poise.
Through an open door he could see the still, white face of the biologist looming from a pillow, and the trim form of a nurse.
The line to the anterior-posterior diameter is simian," the biologist asserted.
To-night," the biologist finally addressed his daughter, "your mother has been dead eighteen years.
When thebiologist left the piazza Annot turned with a glad gesture to her companion.
Anthony saw the biologist bent over pages spread in the concentrated light of a green shaded globe.
There was a letter box at the upper corner of the street, and, passing the porch, he saw the biologist sunk in an attitude of profound dejection.
IV Our French biologist is of the opinion that the artificial production of that marvel of marvels, the living cell, will yet take place in the laboratory.
The biologist imagines this and that about the invisible or hypothetical molecular structure; he assigns different functions to the atoms; some are for endosmosis, others for contraction, others for conduction of stimuli.
The whole evolutionary process, both cosmic and organic, is one, and the biologist may now rightly regard the universe in its very essence as biocentric.
To thebiologist the pack is of absorbing interest.
All the fish which the biologist collected to-day can travel quite fast on land.
Weismann, its author, is well equipped as a biologist to maintain and defend it.
But this is a narrow view of the subject, and does not include all that a biologist means when he uses this word.
So a biologist like De Vries represents positivism, or the breaking of Continuity, by trying to conceive of evolution by mutation--against the dogma of indistinguishable gradations by "minute variations.
I think that if an early biologist heard of birds that grow on trees, he should record that he had heard of birds that grow on trees: then let sorting over of data occur afterward.
But, as the supreme problem for the biologist is the development of man, so the supreme problem for the astronomer is that of the evolutional order of the stars.
It is not enough, to borrow the language of the biologist (part of which he himself borrowed from the old economist), to talk of the struggle for existence, the survival of the fittest and of evolution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biologist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: biologist; botanist; naturalist; taxidermist; zoologist
