Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound…

“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided on this…

— Maarten Boudry

“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

“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species…

— Karl Pearson

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Reading contemporary accounts brings home the fact that of any battle or campaign there are at least for different versions. One is that of…

— Philip Warner

“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Reading contemporary accounts brings home the fact that of any battle or campaign there are at least for different versions. One is that of…

— Philip Warner

With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than…

— Peter Singer

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as…

— Elliott Sober

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

— Trofim Lysenko

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

— Kirk Cameron

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

— Richard Thompson

“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to political theorists…

— Nicholas Wade

“Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: “Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of…

— Mark Clark