Darwin Quotes
161 quotes by 120 authors
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
— Richard Dawkins
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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
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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
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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
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Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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