“Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.” — Richard O. Prum Copy Share Image
“In the case of living machinery, the ‘designer’ is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.” — Richard Dawkins 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
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
“As Jacob put it in 1977, natural selection does not design, it tinkers with what is available.” — Matthew Cobb Copy Share Image
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“...and specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was… — Nicole Williams 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
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn’t the forces of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the… — Henry Gee 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
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal 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
“In theocratic societies, adherence to fundamentalism may enhance the fitness of fundamentalists, as opposed to nonfundamentalists, because fundamentalists are more likely to… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently… — Richard Dawkins 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
Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I believe, Miss Whittaker? Regarding your question on the origins of human compassion and self-sacrifice? I believe that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race… — Karl Pearson 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
“If a group of atoms in the presence of energy falls into a stable pattern it will tend to stay that way.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The boys lived in their own simple, carefree world, unconcerned with hygiene and unaware of the theory of evolution. Yet ruthless natural… — Anonymous 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
“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
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt 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
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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