Natural Selection Quotes

142 Natural Selection quotes by 85 unique authors

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that… — Francis Galton
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one… — Robert J. Sawyer
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies… — Chauncey Wright
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… — L. Harrison Matthews
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as… — Jesse Bering
Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe… — David M. Raup
It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations. Darwin's… — Richard Goldschmidt
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a… — Eugene Wigner
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected… — Richard Dawkins
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes… — Randolph M. Nesse
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth
Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection — Charles Darwin
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' — Jamais Cascio
Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe. — Carl Sagan
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a… — Michael Pollan
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection… — William A. Dembski
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled… — Julian Jaynes
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous… — Henri Poincare
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend… — Charles Darwin
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen
In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have… — David Klinghoffer
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards… — Konrad Lorenz
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,… — Richard Leakey

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