Selection Quotes

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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses:… — Karl Popper
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because.… — John Charles Polanyi
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. — Will Durant
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to… — Thomas Jefferson
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful… — Charles Darwin
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of… — E. O. Wilson
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a… — Thomas Kuhn
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… — Charles Darwin
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give… — Daniel Dennett
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. — Jared Diamond
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind… — Richard Dawkins
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological… — Lynn Margulis
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus… — Arthur Koestler
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,… — Jacques Monod
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When… — Ian Tattersall
Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to… — Paul Feyerabend

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