Richard Lewontin (1997):
"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs... because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism... for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."
D.M.S. Watson (1929):
"The theory of evolution... is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible."
George Wald (1954):
"One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are—as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation... I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible."
Francis Crick:
"Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved."