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
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
“As Jacob put it in 1977, natural selection does not design, it tinkers with what is available.” — Matthew Cobb 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
“In the case of living machinery, the ‘designer’ is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.” — 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
“Unlike the traditionally accepted theories of evolution and natural selection, Black’s view stressed that mutations are not accidents; instead, they are the… — E.B. Hudspeth Copy Share Image
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation… — Richard Goldschmidt Copy Share Image
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“Freud and the unconscious, Darwin and natural selection, Marx and class struggle, Einstein and relativity, Adam Smith and division of labor—they were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural… — Robert Charles 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“All that anybody has in the way of a reputation anymore is an odor which, from birth to death, cannot be modified.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“There are a small number of debilitating conditions with a strong genetic basis, such as muscular dystrophy or Huntington’s disease. These are… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The advances of science and technology will bring us to the greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham: how… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own… — Richard Dawkins 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
The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“Natural selection creates systems, like the brain, that are biased to minimize the costlier error. This built-in bias to avoid evolutionarily expensive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.” — Zane Stumpo Copy Share Image
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of 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
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. — Richard Dawkins 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
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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