Century Quote by Nell Irvin Painter

"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky…

— Bill McKibben

Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because…

— Henry Lipson

“Indeed, nothing less than the understanding of God’s earth was in flux. For centuries, the church had censored scientific ideas that were contrary to…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read…

— Andrew Louth

“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up…

— Martin Rees

“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

“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis. This…

— James A. Shapiro

“This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this was impossible…

— Karen Armstrong

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice…

— Steven Weinberg

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

— George W. Bush