Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Liberal politics is based on the idea that the voters know best, and there is no need for Big Brother to tell… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in the "Lamarckian" mode - by the inheritance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Evolution is all about turning "bugs" into "features", turning "noise" into "signal", and the fuzzy boundaries between these categories are not optional;… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
“Anselm must have been out of his mind to think that the question ‘Does God exist?’ is a question about a predicate.… — Jim Riva Copy Share Image
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to… — Richard Dawkins 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
“It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
