“[Darwin acknowledged in his autobiography that as a young man he was] charmed and convinced ... The marks of design are too strong to be got over. Design must have had a designer. That designer must have been a person. That person is GOD.”
William Paley
“An old young man, will be a young old man.”
Benjamin Franklin
“You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.”
Oscar Wilde
“After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures, great and small, to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being just perhaps the chooser of the laws.”
Daniel Dennett
“[Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero.] Denying man a privileged place in creation, ... he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.”
Primo Levi
“If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary. If we did a documentary on Darwin, I'd get a thousand hate e-mails.”
Sheila Nevins
“Charles Darwin could not have set up a better genetic re-assortment laboratory if he tried.”
Michael Osterholm
