Theodosius Dobzhansky

"According to Goldschmidt, all that evolution by the usual mutations—dubbed "micromutations"—can accomplish is to bring about "diversification strictly within species, usually, if not exclusively, for …"

"The living world is not a single array . . . connected by unbroken series of intergrades."

"No known human group . . . simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species."

"Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness."

"Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology. Only i…"

"Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curio…"

"The greatest evolutionist of our century."

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 35, pp 125-129, March 1973."