Application Quote by Francis Galton

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

— Charles Darwin

“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

The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated, the inevitable…

— Jack London

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 deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned…

— Robert Ardrey

Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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 acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has…

— 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

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates;…

— Charles Darwin

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

— Octavio Paz