Biology Quote by Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape

— Jerome Lawrence

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

— Richard Dawkins

“This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.”

— Siddharta Mukherjee

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin”

— Andrew Mayne

“A radical move from the old Victorian orthodoxies of the kind Charles Darwin had subscribed to was underway. People could no longer clearly define…

— Angela Saini

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as…

— George Eliot

Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that,…

— Thomas Aquinas

“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

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

— Samuel Wilberforce

Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them…

— Charles Darwin

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural…

— Richard Owen