Natural Selection Quotes

142 Natural Selection quotes by 85 unique authors

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of… — Richard Dawkins
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a… — Richard Dawkins
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Natural selection is not evolution. — Ronald Fisher
Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed… — Ashton Kutcher
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is… — Steven Pinker
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human… — E. O. Wilson
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact… — Charles Jencks
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… — Charles Darwin
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural.… — Timothy Keller
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?'… — Terry Pratchett
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,… — Charles Darwin
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what… — Charles Darwin
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to… — William A. Dembski
Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Charles Darwin
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so… — Charles Darwin
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and… — Victor J. Stenger
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in… — William Graham Sumner
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. — Konrad Lorenz
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most… — John B. S. Haldane
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize… — E. O. Wilson
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come… — Francois Jacob
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor… — Charles Darwin
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material… — Stephen Jay Gould

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