You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more… — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of… — David Klinghoffer Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion.… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established,… — Paul Davies 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
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of… — Florence Nightingale 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
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes… — Paul Bloom 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
