We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. —Charles… — Marie Force Copy Share Image
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“Darwin stated: “For I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard… — FastReads Copy Share Image
“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the… — Vladimir L. Voeikov Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Mind you, Darwin fretted about a lot of stuff, especially his health, his kids, and maybe with just cause. On occasion he… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid travelling the world, the first… — Nino Ricci Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would’ve changed his mind and places… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s ideas are devices for generating data. Darwin’s theory opens possibilities for inquiry; Agassiz’s closes them.” — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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