“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
“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
“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
“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
“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