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
“IDers argue that such traits, involving many parts that must cooperate for that trait to function at all, defy Darwinian explanation. Therefore,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and… — John Tyler Bonner 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
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
“It is often felt that Darwin, more than anyone, banished “meaning” from the world—in the sense of any overall divine meaning or… — Oliver Sacks 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
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him… — Ian McEwan 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
“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
“progress—like those cartoons that begin with an ape and end with a man sitting at a computer—now gets lost in a hundred… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to… — Jerry A. Coyne 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
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established,… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Moral principles regarding natural selection seemed to be something they had left on the floor of what was now Kamino’s planetwide ocean,… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that… — Charles Darwin 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
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“The small strength and speed of man, his want of natural weapons, etc., are more than counterbalanced, firstly, by his intellectual powers,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“Americans may already have begun adapting genetically to the American environment in the several generations since their ancestors arrived in the United… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
