One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation… — Billy Roper Copy Share Image
“I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.'… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw smelled the Malthusian morbidity underlying natural selection, lamenting, “When its whole significance dawns on you, your heart… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“...natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I believe, Miss Whittaker? Regarding your question on the origins of human compassion and self-sacrifice? I believe that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“It all starts with the fact that thinking is expensive from the standpoint of natural selection,” Mitchell continues. “The brain consumes 20… — Rob Reid Copy Share Image
“For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Our body’s evolutionary journey is also far from over. Natural selection didn’t stop when farming started but instead has continued and continues… — Daniel E. Lieberman Copy Share Image
“Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“At this point, godless materialists might be cheering. If humans evolved strictly by mutation and natural selection, who needs God to explain… — Francis s. Collins Copy Share Image
“Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“senile decay is simply a by-product of the accumulation in the gene pool of late-acting lethal and semi-lethal genes, which have been… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
![“When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5f6/charles-darwin-507_agnosticism_when-it-was-first-said-that-the-sun-stoo_226722.jpg)
