Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea. — Trofim Lysenko 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
“Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".” — Stephen Hawkings 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
“Charles Darwin, whose theory changed the whole current of the world's thought, was not a great reader of books, but a careful… — Kaiten Nukariya 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
“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
“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
“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
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in… — Jared Diamond 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
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
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith 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
“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 abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain 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
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
“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
“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
“He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid travelling the world, the first… — Nino Ricci 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
“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
“The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image