It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine… — Raul O. Leguizamon Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of the scientific establishment seem genuinely… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No… — Thomas Nagel 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
“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
“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
“[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
“...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“Call it the Darwinian contradiction. We come down from the trees and walk upright and what do we get for it? Foot… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action,… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and,… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The fact that it is… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile… — Scott F. Gilbert 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
“The standard cosmological theory--an expanding universe--does not really solve the problem of God. It simply makes it more problematical. Once the creator-creation… — r. joseph hoffmann Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton 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. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made the world' is simply a more or less sophisticated…” quote by P.W. Atkins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4df/p-w-atkins-58341_answers_religious-belief-is-outmoded-and-ridicul_151446.jpg)
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