“Natural Selection never explains at all the specifications of the animal and vegetable forms that are actually found....”
“For men of clear intellect Darwinism has long been dead....”
(Driesch.)
“We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are all agreed that there is no part [my italics] of the Darwinian system that is of any great influence, and that, as a whole, the theory is not only unproved, but impossible, the ignorant, half-educated masses have acquired the idea that it is to be accepted as a fundamental fact....”
(Dwight, Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University.)
“Selection does not [my italics] bring about transgressive variation in a general population....”
(Professor Morgan, Professor of Experimental Zoology at University of Columbia, writing in 1919.)
“Animals and plants would have developed much as they did even had no struggle for existence taken place....”
(Nägeli.)
“Selection is in no way favourable to the origin of new forms.”