Darwin Quotes

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Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin… — Dale Carnegie
As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't… — Margaret Atwood
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin. — P.J. O'Rourke
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right. — Richard Dawkins
Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has changed their lives.… — Kevin Hearne
As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was… — Susan Cain
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even… — Stephen King
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.â€ Sorry, Darwin-huggers, but itâ€™s not â€œIn the beginning, a monkey evolutioned gay marriage. — Stephen Colbert
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology… — Tony Benn
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have… — Havelock Ellis
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on… — Mark Twain
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by… — Mark Twain
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology,… — Charles Lapworth
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word… — William Jennings Bryan
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she… — Charles Kingsley
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace… — Richard Dawkins

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