Darwin Quotes

161 quotes by 120 authors

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle… — Mark Carwardine
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in… — Francis Galton
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball.… — Bill McKibben
Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only… — John Ciardi
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.… — Primo Levi
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we… — Trofim Lysenko
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. — Trofim Lysenko
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes. — Susan Blackmore
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further… — Errol White
The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism, — Errol White
We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet. — Errol White
I believe in Darwin and God together. — Ray Bradbury
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. — David Duchovny
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film… — Hugh Hefner
People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous. — Lynn Margulis
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. — Ernst Mayr
If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding… — John Mellencamp

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