“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — 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
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
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and,… — David Grann Copy Share Image
For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
“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
“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
“Darwin’s familiarity with human-caused extinction is also clear from On the Origin of Species. In one of the many passages in which… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
“CONTRARY TO THE COMMON ASSUMPTION , Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the nineteenth century,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“My own interest in Herzen was sparked by an exception to this rule: Isaiah Berlin’s essays. These still seem to me to… — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton 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
“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
“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
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It would be a kindness, by the way, and a service to history, if you could please rid yourself of the legend… — Francis Spufford 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
“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you… — Pablo Copy Share Image
“I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image