Quotes from Theodosius Dobzhansky

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

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

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.

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.

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