121 Quotes About Darwin

Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.

Do you want to become a second Shakespeare of world literature, the second Darwin of science, and the second Elvis of music? This is nonsense and at the same time impossible because every human being is unique and you can only be yourself! Every person has to create a different path so that the world becomes richer!

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.

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

Darwin read the study, but he was not particularly convinced, damning his cousin with faint praise: "You have made a convert of an opponent in one sense, for I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work.

As Darwin discovered, competition is important for the survival of our species. It may not be the competition with others but the competition within ourselves.

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself, in the days when not a single bit of evidence regarding the fossil ancestors of man was recognized, distinctly stated that none of the known anthropoid apes, much less any of the known monkeys, should be considered in any way as ancestral to the human stock.

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

Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.