If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“In the case of living machinery, the ‘designer’ is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can… — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“The second irony of evolutionary biology is that this transubstantiation of natural theology into the grand narrative of natural selection has itself… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity. — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
“We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we… — Moxie Mezcal Copy Share Image
In environments that are energy-rich but liquid-poor, like near the surface of Titan, natural selection may favor organisms that use their metabolic… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“Dawkins recognizes the power irreducible complexity has to falsify naturalistic explanations (like any combination of chance, natural law, or natural selection). Even… — J. Warner Wallace Copy Share Image
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance…Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. . .… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Many bright people are really in the dark about vegetable life. Biology teachers face kids in classrooms who may not even believe… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“This has been the point of much of this book. The human brain is a machine designed by natural selection to respond… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Nobody is ever made happy by winning the lottery, buying a house, getting a promotion or even finding true love. People are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The boys lived in their own simple, carefree world, unconcerned with hygiene and unaware of the theory of evolution. Yet ruthless natural… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But our brains are different from mice. Their cortex is tiny, which means their ability to learn from experience is tiny. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“As Jacob put it in 1977, natural selection does not design, it tinkers with what is available.” — Matthew Cobb Copy Share Image
Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
“We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.” — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors." Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
