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
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
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
“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
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley 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
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
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
“[E]volution is not a cause, but the description of a process … Can we in any way explain the origin of species?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dawkins recognizes the power irreducible complexity has to falsify naturalistic explanations (like any combination of chance, natural law, or natural selection). Even… — J. Warner Wallace Copy Share Image
“As Darwin pointed out in The Origin of Species (opening pages of chapter three), the 'struggle for existence' can often be described… — Mary Midgley 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
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
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
“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
“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
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The… — Asa Gray 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
“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
“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
“Nevertheless it is probable that the hearing rather early in life such views maintained and praised may have favoured my upholding them… — Charles Darwin 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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