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Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one.
Specialization is for insects.
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.
Insects all business all the time.
Maker - their word for worm,
I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.
You handle animals. You deal with people.
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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.
I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.
I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for war will always pay better than science for knowledge.
If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are not encouraged to sit back and philosophize.
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
I'm thinking about becoming a farmer and a fisherman - a hunter of swimming plants.
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.
An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.
I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps recovery. It's about making patients laugh but also much more.
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.
Job, requiring intellectual ability and acuity
a history teacher. I work,
A professional sex therapist." Gabe moved out into the hall. "Guess I should show some respect. They do say it's the oldest profession. No, wait, maybe I've got that mixed up with another line of work.
Connoisseur, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.
Businessman, philanthropist, large egg.
I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon ... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.
Life: my favorite occupation.
Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.
I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.
When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps.
When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
My profession is to always find God in nature.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.
I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.
medi-techs. She wanted a
I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer or a fashion photographer.
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.
I had always dreamed of being involved in a job where I could do anything related to animals and nature. A vet maybe. But later I came to understand that it was just a temporary interest and that music was more important to me.
[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.
He's our rodent control officer. He doesn't catch mice, he just terrifies them.
There is no job holier than the job of a genetic engineer or a biochemist who is trying to find the secrets of biological immortality!
pocket lizard licker.
I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.
I would have been a geologist.
I wouldn't be a doctor for anything. That's the worst job.
Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.
I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.
I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.
By noon that day I was painfully aware of how many people needed the services of an entomologist/proctologist. AArdvarks
If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.
My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing.
I'm a cat burglar.
What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day?
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
...butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker.
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.
was a parasite with nasty teeth,
If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.
[D}o not ask me to choose classical philology over industrial catering when they both seem such powerful fun; I want to be a forensic epidemiologist and a floorwalker in men's hosiery-look at how those size l0-to-13's drape over their tiny 2-shaped hangers...
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.
If I had to pick another career, I'd be an optometrist for potatoes. That's where the money is.
My present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.
I am not an ornithologist - I am a bird.
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
Some sort of psychopath, like a serial killer.
-I was a doctor, remember?
-For plants. I was a nurse. For people.
I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine.
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
Inspecting? What do you mean? I don't understand. I'm collecting insects. My specialty is sand and insects.
What?
Collecting insects. Insects. Insects.I catch them like this!
Insects?
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
French zombie chauffeur.
I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.
SALES SPECIALIST. CAN EAT BITTERNESS AND ENDURE HARDSHIP.
Accountants, they have a wild side to them.
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
Who has more leisure than a worm?
Culinary arts. I'm one of those crazy people who dream of being a chef one day.
I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.