Data Quote by David Weinberger

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

— Karl Marx

“Oh. Come on! I left my backpack on the bus.” According to Darwin, you’re a prime candidate for extinction. Too stupid to live!”

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Things don't look hopeful for Darwinian naturalists.

— Alvin Plantinga

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

— Richard Dawkins

“Darwin’s ideas are devices for generating data. Darwin’s theory opens possibilities for inquiry; Agassiz’s closes them.”

— Louis Menand

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,”

— Steve Merrick

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently…

— John Elkann

“If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.”

— Robin Weiss

“In neither general nor special Darwinism should the 'strong' be confused for the 'colorful' or the 'noisy,' and the 'selection' process shan't ever stray…

— G Rodrigues

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous…

— Niles Eldredge