Biology Quote by Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

— Richard Dawkins

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own…

— John Maynard Smith

If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of…

— Daniel Dennett

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

— Daniel Dennett

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

— Jared Diamond

“My grandfather had given me Mr. Darwin's book to read. He had given me the possibility of a different kind of life. but none…

— Jacqueline Kelly

“What an extraordinary thing it is, Mr. Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse-whip in his room, for I often hear the…

— Charles Darwin

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

— Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after…

— Richard Owen

“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species…

— Karl Pearson