History Quote by Charles Darwin

Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous…

— Michael E. Mann

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as…

— Thomas Huxley

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of…

— Konrad Lorenz

“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when…

— Charles Darwin

All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

— Myrtle Reed

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn

Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan