19th century Quote by Lewis Thomas

Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

— Anthony Standen

“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history…

— Edward O. Wilson

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

“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

“In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the law of…

— Gary B. Ferngren

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 was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister,…

— Charles Lapworth

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

— Francis Crick

“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays applying to…

— Homer W. Smith

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

— Karl Marx

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

— Daniel Dennett

Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of…

— Trofim Lysenko