Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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“In the 150 years since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the life sciences have come to see organisms as… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“As precious as life is, it has no value in the hands of death. Thus, remind a human who is prideful of… — Teni. A Copy Share Image
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend"… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read… — Anthony Hopkins 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
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level… — David Lack Copy Share Image
Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Anything, even the conceptually most complex material, can be written for general audiences without any dumbing down. Of course you have to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma 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
“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 see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this… — Karen Armstrong 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
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Mr. Charles Darwin, who looked a bit like God which is interesting, wrote a book called You're a Fucking Monkey, Mate. He… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer… — William Bateson 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
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent… — Alfred Russel Wallace 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
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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