I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
“I wondered what the value was, in the Darwinian sense, of making fast friends like that. There must be some scientific significance… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“the Darwinian world of nature, however, which they claim is the only one, there can be no such things as rights, either… — C.R. Hallpike Copy Share Image
“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from… — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
“Darwinian adaptation to environment applies not only to nature but also to society. Just as you don't find eagles living in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“In fact this ultimate degree of Darwinian faith, which blinds the faithful to even the most obvious facts of human life, is… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The common conception among the dregs of Darwinian culture is that men have slowly worked their way out of inequality into a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty.… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
One of the things that concerns me is the lack of adult supervision, and more specifically, caring adult supervision, at various reform… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image