Ethologist
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."
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Charles Darwin
Science
1758–1778
"Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."
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🇬🇧Richard Dawkins
Science
atheism
b. 1941
"Eugenics was not inspired by Darwin's natural selection but by ancient agricultural ARTIFICIAL selection. Eugenics is UNnatural selection."
242 quotes
🇺🇸Donald Griffin
Education
1915–2003
2 quotes
Julian Huxley
Science
atheism
1887–1975
"The New Divinity" from Essays of a Humanist"
27 quotes
🇬🇧Desmond Morris
Art
Surrealism
b. 1928
"The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."
35 quotes
🇦🇹Konrad Lorenz
Medicine
1903–1989
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."
12 quotes
🇺🇸B. F. Skinner
Psychology
1904–1990
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
18 quotes
🇺🇸Frans de Waal
Literature
1948–2024
"To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us."
12 quotes
Notable Quotes
"In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →
"In this case, therefore, the worms judged with a considerable degree of correctness how best to draw the withered leaves of this foreign plant into their burrows; notwithstanding that they had to depart from their usual habit of avoiding the foot-stalk."
— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →
"Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."
— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →
"A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour."
— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →
"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."
— Charles Darwin, b. 1758View →