“A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.” IdeasFactsPrinciplesExampleTheoryEvolutionMajorsFaultsReactionariesTheory Of Evolution Author:Trofim Lysenko
“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.” PeopleThinkingMayMeanFactsAbleSocialTheoryEvolutionAspectScientistPhilosopherCuriousBiologyTheory Of Evolution Author:Jacques Monod
“I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.” FirstsLittlesStillsI CanFactsSeemsFacesCertainAsksMoralPositionTheoryEvolutionConsequenceRegardConservativeExplanationPhenomenonIrrelevantTheory Of Evolution Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.” MayFactsTurnsUniverseNaturalExistenceTheoryEvolutionExplanationRemarkableSelectionNatural SelectionTheory Of Evolution Book:The Theory of Evolution Source: The Theory of Evolution