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
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
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened,… — Michael Behe 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
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
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
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
“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
By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So… — James D. Watson 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
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
“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the… — Gareth J. Nelson 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
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
“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles… — Herbert Spencer 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
“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
“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
“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
“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since… — Alan H. Linton Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“The standard cosmological theory--an expanding universe--does not really solve the problem of God. It simply makes it more problematical. Once the creator-creation… — r. joseph hoffmann 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.” — Mark Twain 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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
![“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodos. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. [perpetual snow] that, here…” quote by Joseph Dalton Hooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/joseph-dalton-hooker-39139_biology_i-am-above-the-forest-region-amongst-gra_2769144.jpg)
![“[ 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/i/bbe/christopher-hitchens-117_adolf-hitler_said-during-a-debate-when-his-opponent-a_991808.jpg)
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