Occupation: Geneticist Birth: January 24, 1900 Death: December 18, 1975
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution..
The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades..
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance..
The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution….
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mu….
No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful..
Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile o….
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest..
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of th….
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of as….
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals o….
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a ….
I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is ….
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human ….
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan an….
Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions ….
There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is go….
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one….
Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity.
Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resis….
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness..