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Darwinism Quotes (page 2)

I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the early theories of evolution or gravitation or somesuch, and how—although raised a devout Christian even before the reward of the cruciform—he had become an atheist while studying a terrestrial wasp that paralyzed some large species of spider, planted its embryo, and let the spider recover and go about its business until it was time for the hatched wasp larvae to burrow its... Dan Simmons
Not only is religion thriving, but it is thriving because it helps people to adapt and survive in the world. In his book Darwin's Cathedral, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson argues that religion provides something that secular society doesn't: a vision of transcendent purpose. Consequently, religious people have a zest for life that is, in a sense, unnatural. They exhibit a hopefulness about the future that may exceed what is warranted by how the world is going. And they forge... Dinesh D'Souza
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right. Richard Dawkins
Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life. Stephen Hawking
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. Jonah Goldberg
David Duchovny quote: "If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to..."
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. David Duchovny
Ernst Mayr quote: "It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary..."
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. Ernst Mayr
Ernst Mayr quote: "Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes..."
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. Ernst Mayr
Steven Wright quote: "My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted."
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. Steven Wright
Hugh Hefner quote: "The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were..."
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. Hugh Hefner
Richard Owen quote: "No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the..."
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. Richard Owen
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. Richard Owen
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes. Richard Owen
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 History facts. Richard Owen
Susan Oliver quote: "I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia."
I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia. Susan Oliver

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