Quotes of: Darwinism Keyword

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

Charles Lyell

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

John James Audubon

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

John James Audubon

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

Christopher Columbus

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Gilbert White

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

Harry Johnston

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

John Wesley Powell

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

John Ray

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Junipero Serra

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Dian Fossey

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Luther Burbank

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Thor Heyerdahl

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Alva Myrdal

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

Bruce Lipton

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Richard Dawkins

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

Robert Winston

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

Samuel de Champlain