“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“How did ears get their start? Any piece of skin can detect vibrations if they come in contact with vibrating objects. This… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“Americans may already have begun adapting genetically to the American environment in the several generations since their ancestors arrived in the United… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“The small strength and speed of man, his want of natural weapons, etc., are more than counterbalanced, firstly, by his intellectual powers,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Neo-Darwinians do cite some examples of evolution they claim the NDT explains. Natural selection can indeed account for the replacement of light-colored… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Naive Darwinists, including many capitalists, have self-servingly argued that oppression of the weak and the poor is a justified application of natural… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“That meant that fully half of the guests at the El Dorado weren't who they were supposed to be. As a fillip… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Natural selection creates systems, like the brain, that are biased to minimize the costlier error. This built-in bias to avoid evolutionarily expensive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The advances of science and technology will bring us to the greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham: how… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The myth of Aryan dominance, initially an attempt to trace the lost language of the Aryas, began as a set of undemonstrable… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Gun-control people have to stop pressuring Starbucks to ban guns. I want my gun nuts overcaffeinated, twitchy, and accident-prone. That… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“History is natural selection. Mutant versions of the past struggle for dominance; new species of fact arise,and old, saurian truths go to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
![“The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of…” quote by Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f5c/chet-raymo-34749_alternatives_the-new-advocates-of-id-intelligent-desi_3232484.png)
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![“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I…” quote by Lynn Margulis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b9/lynn-margulis-17073_biology_natural-selection-eliminates-and-maybe-m_397958.png)
