#darwin

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#darwin #film #freud #growing #growing up

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#ethics #evolution #p #law

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159) ↗

— Michael Shermer

#darwinism #evolution #intelligent-design #science #spirituality

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. ↗

— David Duchovny

#darwin #going #listens #need #nietzsche

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#complex #darwinian #dynamics #evolved #more

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#experience #facts #investigated #living #naturalists

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biologists #biology #both #country #darwinism