Question 2 of 11

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."

... Darwin's revolutionary theory met with strong opposition at first, even in the scientific community.

Question 3 of 11

"I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought -- the history of race."

... Haeckel said this one. Yes, the Nazis latched onto ideas like this.

Question 4 of 11

"Politics is applied biology."

... Nazi propagandists were fond of this Haeckel quote, too.

Question 5 of 11

"All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution."

... Bryan successfully prosecuted Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in 1925.

Question 6 of 11

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

... Darwin developed this explanation of why the world's creatures are so diverse.

Question 7 of 11

"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats."

... The irrascible Twain -- a redhead himself -- had opinions on all issues of the time, including Darwin's theory.

Question 8 of 11

"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae [parasitic wasps] with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars…"

... Later in life, after digesting the implications of his findings, Darwin discounted any suggestion of intelligent design by a Creator and called himself an agnostic.

Question 9 of 11

"Man, with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

... In this quote, Charles Darwin acknowledged the paradox of humankind's seemingly special place in the world with the obviousness of our animal nature.

Question 10 of 11

"By leaving the process of procreation unchecked and by submitting the individual to the hardest preparatory tests in life, Nature selects the best from an abundance of single elements and stamps them as fit to live and carry on the conservation of the species."

... This passage from Mein Kampf illustrated how Adolf Hitler would try to construe the theory of natural selection to fit his social agenda.

Question 11 of 11

"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."

... This now-discredited statement from Ernst Haeckel means that when we observe the development of an embryo, we can see all the stages that organism has evolved through.

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