Darwin Quotes

161 quotes by 120 authors

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable… — D. James Kennedy
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird… — Huntington Willard
Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept… — Christian B. Anfinsen
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of… — Michael Denton
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an… — Michael Denton
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough… — Fred Hoyle
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. — David M. Raup
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into… — David Berlinski
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one… — Will Cuppy
Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein,… — Ernest Van den Haag
How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin? — Jack Lemmon
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would… — Martin Rees
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many… — David Stoddart
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. — David Weinberger
A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is… — David Cerone
Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:… — Carl Sagan
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or… — Herbert Spencer
Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to… — Hans Selye
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. — Karl Marx
It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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