Biology Quote by Jared Diamond

Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural…

— Richard Dawkins

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“CONTRARY TO THE COMMON ASSUMPTION , Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the mere…

— Daniel Quinn

“The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when one slight…

— Diarmaid MacCulloch

“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological…

— Michael Behe

“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was invented by…

— N.T. Wright

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

— Trofim Lysenko

“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the…

— Karl Popper

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

— Steven Wright

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been…

— Anonymous

“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in…

— E.F. Schumacher