Absolutely nothing Quote by Charles Darwin

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means…

— Charles Darwin

“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the…

— Karl Popper

“If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years,…

— Carl Sagan

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

— Samuel Wilberforce

This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection…

— Charles Darwin

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom

“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.”

— Charles Darwin

The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must…

— Jerry Fodor

Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has been employed…

— Ronald Fisher

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very…

— Charles Darwin

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence…

— Richard Dawkins