All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to…

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other…

— William Jennings Bryan

“Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s…

— Andy Stanley

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If America suffers from drugs, perhaps you should ask what America is lacking, [“What an asshole,”] Eric King commented suddenly. They ignored him.”

— Bruce Sterling

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

“America suffers from its present predicament because a large group of small-minded people chose the leaders and actions that led to our present degraded…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

— Irving Babbitt

The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think…

— George Gaylord Simpson

You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our view of…

— Steven Weinberg

One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right…

— Huston Smith

People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.

— Alice Roberts

“Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and religious narratives. We see…

— Neil Postman

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from…

— Steven Weinberg

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was…

— Richard Dawkins

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists…

— Kurt Vonnegut