Biology Quote by Richard Lewontin

“Collaboration and Competition. We must re-educate and improve awareness of the falsehoods erected around Darwinism and increase the recognition that evolution and ecology are…

— Jon Freeman

“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

“As Darwin pointed out in The Origin of Species (opening pages of chapter three), the 'struggle for existence' can often be described just as…

— Mary Midgley

“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require…

— Robert Harris

“an organism's selective environment is constantly crumbling beneath its evolutionary feet”

— Russell Powell Allen Buchanan

“Naive Darwinists, including many capitalists, have self-servingly argued that oppression of the weak and the poor is a justified application of natural selection to…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Neal Ascherson

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

— Mark Twain

“Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

— Trofim Lysenko

I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the…

— Carlo Rovelli

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

— Joan Dunayer