Top Darwin Quotes
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
George C. Williams
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.
Trofim Lysenko
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
Bruce Jackson
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Richard Owen
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
George C. Williams 
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Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.
Trofim Lysenko
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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
Bruce Jackson
53% of people like this quote
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Richard Owen
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
Michael Behe
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Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
Michael Bloomberg
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But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.
Michael Behe
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I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.
Susan Oliver
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