{"author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky","total_quotes":5,"quotes":[{"text":"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["biology","evidence","evolution","natural-selection","science","sense"],"id":830,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"},{"text":"Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["biology","evolution","inspiring","science"],"id":19955,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"},{"text":"No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["illogical","irrationality","stupidity","unscientific","wishful-thinking"],"id":102000,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"},{"text":"The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["biology","evidence","evolution","fact","history","mankind","reason","science"],"id":189323,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"},{"text":"Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["altruism","biology","evolution","genes","gentleness","human-evolution","natural-selection","science","survival","survival-of-the-fittest"],"id":294213,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}