understanding Quotes

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.