Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We've become a nation of Frankensteins, and our monster is us. With everyone working so hard at altering their facades, we no… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“When he was a lad, if you ran out into traffic, you learnt a valuable lesson – or else you became a… — Caimh McDonnell Copy Share Image
Wenger simply doesn't like those who show a weakness. With him you generally feel as if you were in the army. It's… — Freddie Ljungberg Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“...natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw smelled the Malthusian morbidity underlying natural selection, lamenting, “When its whole significance dawns on you, your heart… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin 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
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
“Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
“From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“This is direct evidence of evolution. We share so much with our placental mammalian cousins because we all had a common ancestor… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“[Adapted and condensed Valedictorian speech:] I'm going to ask that you seriously consider modeling your life, not in the manner of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“In giving rise to man, the evolutionary process has, apparently for the first and only time in the history of the Cosmos,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking. The current… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What to call it - the spark of God? Survival instinct? The souped-up computer of an apex brain evolved from eons in… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a pretty efficient process, so if a behavior is found widely in humans and other species, it’s a better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it.… — Richard Dawkins 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
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
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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