From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation… — Billy Roper Copy Share Image
Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“What is natural selection? Do organisms develop due to an environment, or does the environment only trigger the potential to evolve in… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“If you want the shortest version of my answer to the question of why Buddhism is true, it's this: Because we are… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Cornell researcher Sherman theorized the antimicrobial properties of these spices is one of the reasons humans like the taste of spicy food.… — Sarah Lohman Copy Share Image
“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, however, there is another serious catch. Theory dictates that such discoveries must occur at an increasingly accelerating pace; the time between… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. Because of the fact that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The scientists not only sanctified human feelings, but also found an excellent evolutionary reason to do so. After Darwin, biologists began explaining… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If the fitter climbers had been able to move at their own speed that day there would probably have been a process… — Mike Trueman 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
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“senile decay is simply a by-product of the accumulation in the gene pool of late-acting lethal and semi-lethal genes, which have been… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“The second irony of evolutionary biology is that this transubstantiation of natural theology into the grand narrative of natural selection has itself… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can… — Philip Freeman Copy Share Image
“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we… — Moxie Mezcal Copy Share Image
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity. — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
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