Life Quote by Charles Darwin

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

“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

“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present…

— Henry Gee

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 is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up…

— Richard Dawkins

“We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.”

— Maureen Dowd

“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”

— Charles Darwin

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the…

— Charles Darwin

“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.”

— Carl Sagan

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

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

— Charles Darwin