Natural Selection Quotes

142 Natural Selection quotes by 85 unique authors

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. — Richard Leakey
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really… — Burt Rutan
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its… — Vernor Vinge
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have… — Paul Davies
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture. — Daniel Dennett
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be… — Michael Behe
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world… — Michael Behe
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an… — Michael Behe
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. — Paul Bettany
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle… — Mark Carwardine
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how… — William A. Dembski
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded… — Phillip E. Johnson
Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the… — Francis Collins
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or… — Robert Ardrey
What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by… — Robert Ardrey
One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a… — Bill Nighy
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural… — Ernst Mayr
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get… — Rupert Sheldrake
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness… — Henry Adams
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of… — Stephen Jay Gould
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other… — Stephen Jay Gould
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin
Natural selection is anything but random. — Richard Dawkins

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