Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
“All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built… — T.H. Janabi 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
“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
“Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile… — Scott F. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
“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
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“Living organisms were not independently created, but have descended and diversified over time from common ancestors. And thus, no other biological theory… — Tommy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I recently asked more than seventy eminent researchers if they would have done I their work differently if they had thought Darwin's… — Philip S. Skell 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
“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin]. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What the fuck?" That was me. Pete‘s not an f-word kinda guy. Me? My current record is eighty-two F-bombs in under a… — Adrienne Wilder Copy Share Image
“You'd think that people would have figured out by now that sticking a fork into the toaster is perhaps not the best… — Gary Whitta 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
“You never know who’s going to tell you the good story,” Darwin said. “Wherever you go, there’s your teacher.” — Marina Endicott 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
If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving… — George Eliot 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
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![“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbe/christopher-hitchens-117_adolf-hitler_said-during-a-debate-when-his-opponent-a_991808.jpg)
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