One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a… — Shari Sebbens Copy Share Image
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their… — Frederick William Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy… — Arno J. Mayer Copy Share Image
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe it just happened by blind chance...the obvious alternative to chance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“ Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty.… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.” — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
