“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
“Why not? It's natural selection. Just like nature." I wrinkled my nose. "Boudas love this argument, because it gives them an excuse… — Ilona Andrews 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
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took… — Robert Ardrey 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
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen 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
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
“If the fitter climbers had been able to move at their own speed that day there would probably have been a process… — Mike Trueman 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
“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
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
“Natural beauty, for Darwin, was not just aesthetic; it always reflected function and adaptation at work. Orchids were not just ornamental, to… — Oliver Sacks 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
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed… — Henry Adams 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
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
