“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“The 'Manifesto' being our joint production, I consider myself bound to state that the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins 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
“This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did… — Heiligman Deborah Copy Share Image
“The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Cats catch mice, small birds and the like, very well. Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided… — Maarten Boudry Copy Share Image
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had… — Andrew Louth Copy Share Image
