Darwin Quotes

“Darwin's dangerous idea is that design can emerge from blind, purposeless, mechanistic processes.”

“I have read your book with more pain than pleasure. Parts of it I admired greatly; parts I laughed at till my sides were almost sore; other parts I read with absolute sorrow, because I think them utterly false and grievously mischievous.”

“Darwin's great insight was not that evolution happens—that was already known. His insight was how it happens: through natural selection.”

“If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection.”