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Selection Quotes by Charles Darwin
- 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…
- 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…
- I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not…
- It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,…
- I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
- Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection
- 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…
- In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
- To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
- I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Selection Quotes
- The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. — Irving Babbitt
- The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma
- We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the… — Jerry A. Coyne
- The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered… — L. Harrison Matthews
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. — Kate Adie
- 'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting… — Andrea Bocelli
- Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And… — Kenneth Burke