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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
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I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but…
— Michael Behe
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Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I…
— Michael Bloomberg
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If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very…
— Kirk Cameron
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he…
— Friedrich Engels
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I…
— Karl Pearson
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the…
— Alexander McQueen
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural…
— Karl Popper
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The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't…
— Francis Darwin
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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
— Richard Dawkins
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever…
— Daniel Dennett
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