Darwinism Quote by William C. Brown

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

— Alan Grant

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism,…

— Jonah Goldberg

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological…

— William James

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

— Richard Dawkins

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never…

— Jonah Goldberg

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

— Elliott Sober

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or…

— Stephen King

There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though…

— N. K. Jemisin

“He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that…

— Tony Campolo

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

— Warren Farrell

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of…

— George Eliot

I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how…

— Richard Dawkins