“Dr. Edward Clarke, a Harvard professor, said it was possible for a girl to study hard and do well in everything, but it would damage her health for the rest of her life, and her children would be s...”

“Schopenhauer said only men had the total objectivity necessary for genius, and that you only had to look at a womans shape to see that she wasnt intended for much mental or physical work.”

“When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.”

“Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.”

“Inside the (Domestic) Sphere women did things which weren't too demanding like childcare, scrubbing the floor, washing the sheets and curtains, sewing on buttons, and coalmining.”

“There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was about five, Charl...”

“Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it w...”

“The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.”

“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is ...”

“If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin wouldve changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.”

“Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”

“When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.”