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Darwin Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
- Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
- 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…
- 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.
- Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace…
- We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
- Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard…
- As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
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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
- When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the… — Alexander McQueen
- The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper
- 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
- Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins
- Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the… — Lincoln Steffens
- Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever… — Daniel Dennett