Chance Quote by Richard Dawkins

“A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance”

— Richard Dawkins

“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. Why, I wonder, is…

— Richard Dawkins

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

— Richard Dawkins

The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments…

— Louis Agassiz

“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. . . . Natural…

— Richard Dawkins

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .

— Richard Dawkins

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum…

— Michael Behe

The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the…

— William Jennings Bryan

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme...

— Karl Popper

We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that…

— Thomas Dwight

Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is,…

— Norman Macbeth

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

— Neal Ascherson