114 Quotes About Darwinism
- Author William Randolph Hearst
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It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.
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- Author Randolph M. Nesse
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Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help us to understand the evolutionary origins of disease, and this knowledge will prove profoundly useful in achieving the legitimate goals of medicine.
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- Author Yann Martel
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He weeps like a child, catching his breath and hiccuping,his face drenched with tears.We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship. [..] We are risen does, not fallen angels. Tomás is strangled by loneliness.
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- Author Kim Stanley Robinson
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Survival of the fittest," which Sax had always considered a useless tautology. But if social Darwinists were taking over, then maybe the concept gained importance, as a religious dogma of the ruling order....
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man.
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- Author Edmund Gosse
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Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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Darwinism is not eugenics, but all eugenicists were devoted Darwinists, staring with Darwin’s sons Leonard.
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- Author Jun-yuan Chen
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In China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin!
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