“Darwin stated: “For I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard… — FastReads Copy Share Image
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. —Charles… — Marie Force Copy Share Image
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a… — Jonathan Clements 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
“Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the… — Vladimir L. Voeikov Copy Share Image
“Mind you, Darwin fretted about a lot of stuff, especially his health, his kids, and maybe with just cause. On occasion he… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the… — Daniel Dennett 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
“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 am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine… — Raul O. Leguizamon Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of the scientific establishment seem genuinely… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of… — Ray Bradbury 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
“They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for… — William Bateson 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
“[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
“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
“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
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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