“Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors." Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.” — Sebastián Wortys 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
“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 Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.”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
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
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
All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Fears were learned, but they were also inherited. Natural Selection. Run from the lion. Jump away from the tiny, poisonous insects. They… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
“A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The point of the prey being paralysed rather than killed, by the way, is that they don't decay but are eaten alive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every messiah, every church, every temple, every mosque, every… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“is an assemblage of organic algorithms shaped by natural selection over millions of years of evolution. 2. Algorithmic calculations are not affected… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Universally accepted, microevolution has limits for what it can explain. These limits do not reach the center where the controversy lies -… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“Phenotype, in short, drags genotypes behind it, like a cart pulling a horse. It is the perennial conundrum of natural selection that… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could… — Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis 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
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
