Accepted Quote by Richard Goldschmidt

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

— H. G. Wells

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own…

— John Maynard Smith

The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something else? Everybody…

— Michael Behe

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as…

— Elliott Sober

“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species…

— Karl Pearson

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of…

— Richard Goldschmidt

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory,…

— Trofim Lysenko

“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to political theorists…

— Nicholas Wade

“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and, coupled with…

— David Grann

With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than…

— Peter Singer

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about…

— Thomas Henry Huxley