Several places, concepts, institutions, and things are namesakes of the English biologist Charles Darwin:
- Places
- Charles Darwin National Park
- Charles Darwin University
- Darwin College, Cambridge
- Darwin, Falkland Islands
- Darwin, Northern Territory
- Darwin Glacier (California)
- Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands
- Darwin Island (Antarctica)
- Darwin Sound (Canada)
- Mount Darwin (California)
- Mount Darwin (Tasmania)
- Things named after Darwin in relation to his Beagle voyage
- Cordillera Darwin
- Darwin's finches
- Darwin Sound
- Mount Darwin (Andes)
- Philosophies
- Darwinism
- Social Darwinism
- Other
- Darwin - an operating system
- Darwin (ESA) (a proposed satellite system)
- Darwin Awards
- Darwin Medal
- Darwin's Radio, a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Bear
- Darwin fish
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, named and/or darwin:
“Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.”
—Charlotte Bunch (b. 1944)
“Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You don’t look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to list you in their publicity with the local attractions.”
—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)
“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)