Science Quote by Siddharta Mukherjee

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

“evolution is about reproduction, passing on copies of genes.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

— Mark Twain

“Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.”

— Dan Brown

“What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.”

— Steve Jones

Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“The laws evolved by one particular species, for the convenience of that species, are, by their nature, concerned only with the capacities of that…

— John Wyndham

“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.”

— Henry Gee

“Those natural designs that survive to reproduce pass on their genes. Those that don’t successfully reproduce disappear; their genes disappear as well.”

— Bill Nye

I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.

— Elliott Sober

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