Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth 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 Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.”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
Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion.… — Steven Pinker 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
“The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate,… — Edward O. Wilson 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
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or… — Jerry A. Coyne 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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“This is direct evidence of evolution. We share so much with our placental mammalian cousins because we all had a common ancestor… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
“Now consider the tortoise and the eagle. The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“{ On to contributions to evolutionary biology of 18th century French scientist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon } He was not an… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
“Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors." Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
