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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

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

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.