Darwin Quotes

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure… — Michael Behe
Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin. — Michael Bloomberg
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things. — Kirk Cameron
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple… — Friedrich Engels
Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when… — Karl Pearson
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise… — Alexander McQueen
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses:… — Karl Popper
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give… — Daniel Dennett
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins
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
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus… — Arthur Koestler
At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only… — John Harvey Kellogg
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They… — James Black

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