Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".” — Stephen Hawkings 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
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
“The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
“If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would’ve changed his mind and places… — Charbel Tadros 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
“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
Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably… — Rich Cohen 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
“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
“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
“Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The fact that it is… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into… — Bill McKibben 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
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
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or… — Primo Levi 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
“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
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter… — Jonathan Clements 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
“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
“Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams 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's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
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