Darwin Quotes

161 quotes by 120 authors

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its… — Lev Shestov
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which… — Franz Boas
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed… — John B. S. Haldane
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about… — Michael Shermer
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top… — Mort Sahl
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than… — Fred Hoyle
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to… — Michael Behe
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even… — Michael Behe
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution,… — Ernst Mayr
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of… — Niles Eldredge
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical… — Niles Eldredge
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian… — David M. Raup
In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin. — Phillip E. Johnson
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualitiesâ€”a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosityâ€”but they also share one other defining… — Steven Johnson
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. — Trofim Lysenko
Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape — Jerome Lawrence
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words… — Oliver Burkeman
It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore… — Daniel Dennett
This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains much as it… — Norman Macbeth

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