Thank God for Darwin, eh?

One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy…

— Shari Sebbens

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. —Charles Darwin”

— Marie Force

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could…

— Isabella Rossellini

“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

— Karl Marx

“[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…

— P.W. Atkins

“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard…

— Ernst Mayr

Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right.

— Roger Caillois

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work…

— John Shelby Spong

“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their wondrous mathematical…

— Frederick William Sanderson

“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking effect, but…

— Bertrand Russell

“Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy that fired…

— Arno J. Mayer

Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.

— Trofim Lysenko

“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin…

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr