Nature Quote by Jerry A. Coyne

“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

“But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as…

— Charles Darwin

“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.”

— Richard Dawkins

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem…

— Michael Pollan

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

“The forces of nature aren’t arbitrarily selected in some way by chance or design, they are simply the possible directions of time.”

— Gevin Giorbran

Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“As Jacob put it in 1977, natural selection does not design, it tinkers with what is available.”

— Matthew Cobb

“...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

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

— Carl Sagan

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the…

— Richard Dawkins