Darwin Quotes

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If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

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

The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. “Christ, how can our family be mankind’s best hope?

A road trip with your ancient mommy is just what you need after falling off a mountain and having your soul ripped out by your best friend.

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your unlimited power-Mason Lerner

Well, my mother did teach me a killer family recipe for a Bloody Mary. I guess I can make that next Thanksgiving-Haylee Mitchell

If I do decide to have a Girl's Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner

You're going on birth control...or I will smash your truck-Allison Young

The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

• you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥

Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.

Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.

My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more.

The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!

It's chance, I tell you, ' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the worst way to explain the mysteries of life, except for Creationism.

No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans out of a psychological need to have a sense of eternal security.

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would’ve changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]