We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.” — Dan Brown 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
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all… — Daniel Dennett 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
“If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.” — Robin Weiss Copy Share Image
“As Darwin discovered, competition is important for the survival of our species. It may not be the competition with others but the… — Debasish Mridha 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
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
I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo 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
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
“Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific… — James A. Shapiro 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
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the… — David Quammen 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
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of… — John Searle 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
And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin]. — Ben Stein 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
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.” — Henry Gee 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
“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
“Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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