Quotes of: Darwin Keyword

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

Frans de Waal

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

Charles Sturt

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

John James Audubon

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

John James Audubon

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.

John Culberson

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

Bertrand Piccard

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

Garrett Hardin

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

Dan Buettner

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Daniel Dennett

I can't explain some of the things I've seen and...I've done some things I can't explain.

Josh Gates

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Gilbert White

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Bill Frist

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Ernst Haeckel

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Louise Slaughter

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

Mike Johanns

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Richard Dawkins

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Aldo Leopold

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

William Bligh

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

Zebulon Pike