Darwinian Quotes

I'm a Darwinian.

— Peter Greenaway

There's almost a Darwinian quality about the NFL.

— Steve Fainaru

Things don't look hopeful for Darwinian naturalists.

— Alvin Plantinga

No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

— Mark Pagel

“The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.”

— Edward O. Wilson

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

— Denise Mina

Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human.

— Sharan Burrow

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

— Tom Stoppard

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

— W. S. Gilbert

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

— Nancy Kress

Politics is Darwinian. Individuals will prioritise their future first.

— Barkha Dutt

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

— Richard Dawkins

If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like…

— Bruce Lipton

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty.…

— Trofim Lysenko

There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to…

— Richard Dawkins

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense,…

— Richard Dawkins

Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot…

— James K. Galbraith

“[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.”

— Edward O. Wilson

“In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a…

— Dan Brown

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found…

— Steven Soderbergh

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions…

— Mark Twain

The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it…

— Donald Johanson

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any…

— Richard Dawkins

“But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and…

— Richard Dawkins

We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I…

— Jerome Lejeune

The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible…

— Martin Rees

One of the things that concerns me is the lack of adult supervision, and more specifically, caring adult supervision, at various reform…

— Adam Rapp

“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as…

— Angus Menuge

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

— Daniel Dennett

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

— Dick Morris

In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

— N.D. Wilson

“Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,”

— Steve Merrick

“Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.”

— George Hammond

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

— Oscar Wilde

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

— Ray Comfort

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

— Helen Fisher

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

— Richard Dawkins