"The idea that being human and having rights……" — Tom Stoppard
"The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world."
More Darwinian Quotes
- We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within… — Richard Goldschmidt
- Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend… — Martin Rees
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits… — Mark Twain
- For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the… — George Bernard Shaw
- Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the… — Lynn Margulis
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big… — Richard Dawkins
- Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as… — Phillip E. Johnson
- Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their… — Francis Maitland Balfour
- Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in… — Michael Denton
- We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of… — Unknown Author
- Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring… — Richard Dawkins
- It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of… — Richard Dawkins