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Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories…

— Anonymous

“Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a question that…

— Jonathan Clements

“Darwin’s picture of the history of life “contradict[ed] what the animal forms buried in the rocky strata of our earth tell us of their…

— Stephen C. Meyer

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity…

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

— Errol White

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual…

— Ernst Mayr

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at…

— Jane Goodall

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

— Mark Twain

“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole…

— James Moore