Quote by David C. Stove

“Darwinians have always owed their readers a translation manual that would "cash" the teleological language which Darwinians avail themselves of without restraint in explaining…

— David C. Stove

“Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological explanations of…

— David C. Stove

“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.”

— Mark Twain

“It is often felt that Darwin, more than anyone, banished “meaning” from the world—in the sense of any overall divine meaning or purpose. There…

— Oliver Sacks

Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put…

— Karl Marx

“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist.…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin”

— Andrew Mayne

“In fact this ultimate degree of Darwinian faith, which blinds the faithful to even the most obvious facts of human life, is far commoner…

— David C. Stove

“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology, as commonly…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin”

— Deborah Heiligman

The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism,

— Errol White