Biology Quote by Daniel Dennett

“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take…

— Robert Wright

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

— Carl Sagan

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Natural selection is not evolution.

— Ronald Fisher

“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

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

— Jane Goodall

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that…

— George Bernard Shaw

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain…

— Steven Pinker

“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

We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And…

— Jerry A. Coyne

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould