Theodosius Dobzhansky

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

“Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them,…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky