I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains?… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“A man worth being with is one… That never lies to you Is kind to people that have hurt him A person… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think… — Martin Rees 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
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
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms… — William A. Dembski 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
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the… — Henry Gee 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
My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. — Stacy Keach Copy Share Image
Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how… — Sarah Ban Breathnach 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
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very… — Robert Barry 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
'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
