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Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
— Charles Darwin
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
— Charles Darwin
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
— Charles Darwin
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
— Charles Darwin
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.
— Charles Darwin
It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.
— Charles Darwin
For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.
— Henry Ian Cusick
It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.
— Bernard Darwin
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
— Charles Darwin
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
— Charles Darwin
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.
— Natasha Larry
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
— Charles Darwin
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
— Darwin D. Martin
Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin.
— Hunter Shea
Two distinct elements are included under the term "inheritance" - the transmission, and the development of characters;
— Charles Darwin
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Edmund Beecher Wilson
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer
— Charles Darwin
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
— Charles Darwin
Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives
— Michael Behe
Darwin is my copilot.
— T. Rafael Cimino
Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations.
— Jonathan Haidt
Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska.
— John Green
People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
— Lynn Margulis
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
— Daniel Dennett
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
— Jared Diamond
I wonder if the folks at Christian books will fire you when they find out about your devil powers-John Gramm
— Natasha Larry
Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape
— Jerome Lawrence
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.
— Susan Blackmore
At the heart of Darwin's theory,
— Elizabeth Kolbert
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
— Richard Thompson
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
— Charles Darwin
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
— Christopher McDougall
They want me to kill him because he didn't do well on their tests. This is a mismatch. I am Darwin's scythe. Nature scraping away the chaff.
— Pierce Brown
Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.
— David H. Hubel
Progress has been much more general than retrogression
— Charles Darwin
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
— Charles Darwin
But here's a bit of spoilsport historical reality: It wasn't the finches that inspired Darwin, it was the Mockingbirds.
— David Quammen
Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.
— Philip Ridley
I think an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. The whole subject [of God] is beyond the scope of man's intellect.
— Charles Darwin
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
— Charles Darwin
frequently recommend Miller's book, Finding Darwin's God,
— Richard Dawkins
What the fuck?" That was me. Pete's not an f-word kinda guy. Me? My current record is eighty-two F-bombs in under a minute.
— Adrienne Wilder
Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the worst way to explain the mysteries of life, except for Creationism.
— Roberto Quaglia
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
— David M. Raup
From a ball of mud taken from a birds plumage, Charles Darwin raised 82 separate plants, belonging to five distinct species!
— Rachel Carson
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
— Natasha Larry
Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.
— Charles Darwin
Darwinism is not eugenics, but all eugenicists were devoted Darwinists, staring with Darwin's sons Leonard.
— A.E. Samaan
Darwin says your mother's a whore. Simple as that.
— Cacilda Jetha
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.
— Charles Darwin
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
— Kirk Cameron
Well, my mother did teach me a killer family recipe for a Bloody Mary. I guess I can make that next Thanksgiving-Haylee Mitchell
— Natasha Larry
[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.
— John Shelby Spong
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
— Charles Darwin
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
— Charles Darwin
If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.
— Charles Darwin
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
— Steven Wright
Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.
— Charles Darwin
This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.
— Charles Darwin
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
— Charles Darwin
Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.
— Jacky Fleming
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
— Charles Darwin
In China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in America you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.
— John C. Lennox
I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin
— Deborah Heiligman
demanded to know. "You know she's just using the Kennedy name for publicity. She's just a social climber. At
— Darwin Porter
While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal.
— Eugenie Brinkema
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
— Charles Darwin
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
— Charles Darwin
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
— Charles Darwin
On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.
— Charles Darwin
I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man.
— A.E. Samaan
Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your unlimited power-Mason Lerner
— Natasha Larry
Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though
— Henri Bergson
The first person to refer to Darwin's tales as Just So Stories was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, in 1978.61
— Tom Wolfe
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
— Charles Darwin
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
— Charles Darwin
Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral
— Daniel C. Dennett
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
— Ryan Reynolds
He tries not to think about The Core ... but he couldn't deny it ... they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children
— Natasha Larry
Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. Christ, how can our family be mankind's best hope?
— Natasha Larry
I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
— Charles Darwin
In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory
— Ludwig Boltzmann
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
— Charles Darwin
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
— Charles Darwin
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
— Bernard Darwin
You know teenage boys, you own one-Mason Lerner
— Natasha Larry