Civilization Quote by Alfred Russel Wallace

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection",…

— Herbert Spencer

“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time requires that…

— Carl Sagan

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and…

— Primo Levi

And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history…

— Herbert Spencer

“All humans have time at their disposal irrespective of economic status, race or class”

— Sunday Adelaja

“To be honest, the future doesn’t look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things…

— Ernest Cline

“evolution is blind to the future”

— Richard Dawkins

“Evolution isn't 'survival of the fittest,' for Christ's sake. In the long run, linearly, it's survival of the most prolific.”

— Ron Sanders

“Naive Darwinists, including many capitalists, have self-servingly argued that oppression of the weak and the poor is a justified application of natural selection to…

— Carl Sagan

I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the most fit…

— Paul Di Filippo