Darwinian Quotes

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We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the chromosomes.… — Richard Goldschmidt
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are… — Martin Rees
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists… — Phillip E. Johnson
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of… — Michael Denton
We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is… — Thomas Dwight
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories. — Richard Dawkins
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very,… — Richard Dawkins
There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I… — Richard Dawkins
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas. — Richard Weikart
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television. — Dick Morris
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient… — Charles Stross
Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that… — George Saunders
Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little… — Robert J. Marks II
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems… — Seth Lloyd

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