Darwin Quotes

161 quotes by 120 authors

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer… — Kenneth R. Miller
I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same… — Denis O'Hare
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin. — Ryan Reynolds
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into… — John Shelby Spong
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is… — Lewis Thomas
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. — Steven Wright
Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from… — Frans de Waal
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of… — Greg Graffin
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact… — Charles Jencks
Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put… — Stephen Hawking
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time… — Richard Dawkins
Darwin speculated that â€œmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited… — Oliver Sacks
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And… — Ray Bradbury
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to… — David Brin
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a… — William Golding
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or… — J. G. Ballard
On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says,… — Kurt Vonnegut

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