Theodosius Dobzhansky Quotes
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.
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.
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.
The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
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 compelling and true solution.
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.
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's radio set will seldom make it work better.
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.