Theodosius Dobzhansky

“Adaptation is a masterpiece of piecemeal engineering.”

“I am a creationist and an evolutionist.”

“Heredity is not a destiny. It is a potentiality.”

“No organism lives in a vacuum.”

“The capacity for culture is a biological property of our species.”

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”

“Evolution comprises all the stages of the development of the universe: the cosmic, biological, and human or cultural developments. Attempts to restrict the concept of evolution to biology are gratuitous.”

“Man is not the center of the universe. We're not the pinnacle of evolution.”

“Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring of the sciences.”

“The diversity of the phenomena of life is so great that it is very difficult to discover unifying principles.”

“A creative person is a person who is faced with a problem and has the freedom to solve it.”

“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.”

“Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow.”