Britain Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He…

— Martin Rees

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

— Jared Diamond

“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

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

— Bertrand Russell

[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him,…

— H. L. Mencken

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The…

— Robert Wright

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

— Michio Kaku

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin”

— Andrew Mayne

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

— Mark Twain

“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard…

— Ernst Mayr

I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most…

— Greg Graffin