"Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable……" — Daniel Dennett

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• The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams
• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or… — Michael Behe
• 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… — Michael Bloomberg
• If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number… — Kirk Cameron
• Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human… — Friedrich Engels
• Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how… — Karl Pearson
• When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt,… — Alexander McQueen
• The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,… — Karl Popper
• The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say,… — 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… — Lincoln Steffens
• Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea… — Daniel Dennett

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