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Selection Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living…
- We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
- 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…
- There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life,…
- There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I…
- In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes…
- Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected…
- Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
- Natural selection is anything but random.
- 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…
- 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…
- Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the…
- Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that…
- For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
- 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…
- If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
- An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet…
- Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated…
- As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
- Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
More Selection Quotes
- 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
- The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. — Irving Babbitt
- I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. — Kate Adie
- One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. — Jeff Bezos
- 'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting… — Andrea Bocelli
- I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors,… — Luther Burbank
- Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And… — Kenneth Burke
- Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the… — Graydon Carter
- Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins
- Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod
- Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He… — Adolf Hitler