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Darwinian Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- 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…
- 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.
- 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,…
- 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…
- The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.
- I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
- I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
- We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
- There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not…
- An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet…
- Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated…
- What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to…
More Darwinian Quotes
- We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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.… — Lynn Margulis
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins
- Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes.… — 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… — 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… — Michael Denton
- We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian… — Unknown Author
- Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over… — Richard Dawkins
- It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins