Afraid Quote by Daniel Dennett

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a…

— Daniel Dennett

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

— Daniel Dennett

It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of…

— Thomas Paine

The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable…

— Daniel Dennett

“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard…

— Ernst Mayr

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining…

— Richard Dawkins

For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about…

— Thomas Huxley

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.…

— Mark Twain

“But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and exploitative tendencies…

— Richard Dawkins

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living…

— Phillip E. Johnson

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than…

— Richard Dawkins

“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it…

— David Berlinski