Nature Quote by Bill Nye

“evolution is about reproduction, passing on copies of genes.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“You are a side effect of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.”

— John Green

“Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.”

— Joe Quirk

“We are all born with a genetic inheritance—but your genes are activated by the environment. They can be switched on, or off, by what…

— Johann Hari

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

“What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the…

— George Bernard Shaw

“In short, we evolved, like other animals, to win the reproduction game. That contest has a single aim, to leave as many descendants as…

— Jared Diamond

“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the…

— Karl Popper

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“After all, looking around, we see bodies, not naked genes. Bodies, bodies everywhere: eating, sleeping, being eaten, growing, reproducing, laughing, lounging, walking, running, swimming,…

— Nanelle Barash

“We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.”

— Maureen Dowd

“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch