Wenger simply doesn't like those who show a weakness. With him you generally feel as if you were in the army. It's… — Freddie Ljungberg Copy Share Image
“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we… — E.F. Schumacher 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
“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
“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of… — Charles Darwin 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
“We've become a nation of Frankensteins, and our monster is us. With everyone working so hard at altering their facades, we no… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the… — R.W. van Bemmelen 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
“In the case of living machinery, the ‘designer’ is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind… — Steven Pinker 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
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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 Copy Share Image
“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are… — Ronald A. Fisher Copy Share Image
The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered… — L. Harrison Matthews Copy Share Image
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Selection has favoured genes that cooperate with others. In the fierce competition for scarce resources, in the relentless struggle to eat other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image