Natural Selection Quotes

142 Natural Selection quotes by 85 unique authors

Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be… — David Attenborough
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity. — Justin Rosenstein
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good… — Mark Pagel
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. — E. O. Wilson
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind… — Jason Silva
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly… — Richard Dawkins
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. — Richard Dawkins
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals,… — John Tyler Bonner
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. — John Tyler Bonner
The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it… — Paul Bloom
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures.… — Paul Bloom
Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is. — Peter Agre
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. — Andrew Lo
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Unknown Author

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