Darwinism Quotes

• Charlie Munger / Business Person

The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses.

• Ben Stein / Actor

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

• Phillip E. Johnson / Law Professor

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

• Francis Parker Yockey / Philosopher

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

• Richard Ashcroft / Musician

I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.

• Trofim Lysenko / Experimenter

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

• Jacob Weisberg / Journalist

To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic Darwinism.

• Richard Flanagan / Novelist

Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

• Jonah Goldberg / Author

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

• Bruce Lipton

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.

• N. K. Jemisin

There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

• Martin Rees / Astronomer

Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

• Jonathan Sacks / Rabbi

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

• Ben Stein / Actor

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

• Trofim Lysenko / Experimenter

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

• Jonah Goldberg / Author

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

• Ben Stein / Actor

I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

• Ben Stein / Actor

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

• Ben Stein / Actor

Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.