Achievement Quote by John Searle

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

— Mark Twain

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did…

— Francis Galton

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

— Trofim Lysenko

“The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize that you…

— Matt Ridley

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved…

— Mark Twain

There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts. That idea…

— Eric Kandel

Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“In consequence of Darwin 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a non-miraculous history…

— Ernst Haeckel

“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

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

— George Leonard

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