Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the… — King Louie Copy Share Image
“When I thought of it that way, the Selection seemed like a rope, something sure I could grab onto. That stupid letter… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“if there’s one thing I’ve learned from being in the Selection, it’s that some girls have a frightening killer instinct. Don’t let… — Kiera Cass 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
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution,… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler 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
As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered… — L. Harrison Matthews Copy Share Image
“When an individual is cooperative and altruistic, this reduces his advantage in competition to a comparable degree with other members but increases… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our… — Jon Gordon 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
My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over… — Jacques Monod 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
“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
The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins 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
Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's… — Don Rose 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
“And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore 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
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Consistency in selection is great but it's a whole lot easier if you've got players who warrant that consistency through their performances. — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who,… — Stephen Breyer 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
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
![“[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average.” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e78/bertrand-russell-69_atheism_regarding-the-convention-that-clergymen_570434.jpg)
![“The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do…” quote by L. Harrison Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/956/l-harrison-matthews-92077_action_the-peppered-moth-experiments-show-the-e_2525577.jpg)
![“[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns home to practice and I couldn't afford to buy one. He gave my friend, Tyrone, a tuba and he gave me a junior high saxophone for each of us to use at Performing Arts…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/217/jon-gordon-1655_art_larry-laurenzano-gave-me-a-junior-high-s_1950287.jpg)
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