Darwin Quotes

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...

Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mentio...

It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetic...

Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of t...

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating...

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

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I s...

The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I...

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based ...

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

There’s a voice that says: "So what?"It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself...

Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The...

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

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestr...

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individu...

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been ap...

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) ...

Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to las...

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

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutc...

One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of ...

They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men ...

...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrat...

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...

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

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the a...

The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding thing...