Admirable Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

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

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

— Andrew Mayne

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the…

— Seth Shostak

“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

It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a…

— James D. Watson

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and…

— Primo Levi

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork…

— Carl Sagan