When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If you're trying to cast the widest possible net to attract the largest selection of men or women, the last thing you… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
Attitude is really important to me and I talk about that with the players. Often players don't realise that if they've missed… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem of Obamacare is the insurance mandates. When you mandate what has to be insurance, it elevates the price. And… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night… — Mark Gottfried 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
Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs… — Robert Neelly Bellah 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
... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood… — Kerry King 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
The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The… — Warren Buffett 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
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
Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out… — Vance Joy Copy Share Image
From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an average… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
Instagram has been around for what, maybe a couple of years? Already it has shut down some small blogs - it's a… — Franca Sozzani 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
I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of… — Adrienne Bailon Copy Share Image
Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness,… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I really moved fast, bro. I don't want a big selection, because I don't want myself in between nobody else's problems, basically.… — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
