Appreciating Quote by Trofim Lysenko

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of…

— Trofim Lysenko

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

— Trofim Lysenko

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

— Kirk Cameron

“Charles Darwin, whose theory changed the whole current of the world's thought, was not a great reader of books, but a careful observer of…

— Kaiten Nukariya

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural…

— Richard Owen

“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

I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ... the success…

— W. R. Thompson

The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into…

— Eugene Wigner

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the…

— Friedrich Engels

“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

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade

“Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions of the…

— Steve Jones