If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“History is natural selection. Mutant versions of the past struggle for dominance; new species of fact arise,and old, saurian truths go to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Gun-control people have to stop pressuring Starbucks to ban guns. I want my gun nuts overcaffeinated, twitchy, and accident-prone. That… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of questions… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That meant that fully half of the guests at the El Dorado weren't who they were supposed to be. As a fillip… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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“Collins’s understanding of the Fox-Hedgehog parable is questionable from the start. He suggests that people who have had the greatest impact on… — Philip M. Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its… — Samuel Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could… — Maurice Wilkins Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One… — Terry Pratchett 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
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
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
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“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
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