Natural selection Quotes

“If you believe in natural selection, you are a racist.”

— John Joy

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

— Richard Dawkins

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

— Charles Darwin

“Natural selection is intolerant of idle verbosity.”

— John M. Marzluff

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

— Richard Dawkins

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

— Charles Darwin

Natural selection is anything but random.

— Richard Dawkins

“Smoking will probably kill me, but so will natural selection.”

— Carroll Bryant

“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

— Richard Dawkins

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

— Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

— Jamais Cascio

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

— Frances Arnold

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

— John Tyler Bonner

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

— Charles Darwin

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and…

— Anonymous

“[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.”

— Edward O. Wilson

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of…

— Michael Behe

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to…

— Charles Darwin

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production…

— Charles Darwin

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

— Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of…

— Richard Leakey

The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural…

— Karl Popper

Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed…

— Richard Dawkins

The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the…

— Julian Huxley

On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non…

— Charles Darwin

“Cornell researcher Sherman theorized the antimicrobial properties of these spices is one of the reasons humans like the taste of spicy food.…

— Sarah Lohman

“Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern…

— Charles Darwin

Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever…

— Daniel Dennett

“What is natural selection? Do organisms develop due to an environment, or does the environment only trigger the potential to evolve in…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of…

— Carl Sagan

“We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“For evolution to be true, there would have been innumerable transitional forms between different types of creatures. Therefore, for every known fossil…

— Jonathan Sarfati

“If efficient copying is adaptive, such that natural selection should favor greater and greater reliance on social as opposed to asocial learning,…

— Kevin N Laland

“ Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the…

— John Dos Passos

“The scientists not only sanctified human feelings, but also found an excellent evolutionary reason to do so. After Darwin, biologists began explaining…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If the fitter climbers had been able to move at their own speed that day there would probably have been a process…

— Mike Trueman