...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
“But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer. It doesn't produce the absolute perfection achievable by a designer starting from… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Genetic programming (GP) is a general optimization technique that is based on Darwin's theories on evolution and natural selection. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when… — Diarmaid MacCulloch Copy Share Image
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection… — Carl Sagan 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
“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
People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words,… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“...play [is] an instinct developed by natural selection ... and ... on a level with the other instincts which are developed for… — Karl Groos Copy Share Image
“Today, the 4-billion-year-old regime of natural selection is facing a completely different challenge. In laboratories throughout the world, scientists are engineering living… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“1.Organisms are algorithms. Every animal – including Homo sapiens – is an assemblage of organic algorithms shaped by natural selection over millions… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' — Jamais Cascio 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
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate… — Mark Carwardine Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes.… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
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