Biology Quote by John Tyler Bonner

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large…

— John Tyler Bonner

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

There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're…

— Greg Graffin

Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly…

— Konrad Lorenz

“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

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those…

— Randolph M. Nesse

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

“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained…

— James Lovelock

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what…

— Anonymous

Success is not in obtaining the thing. Because there's always another thing. And then you look back on it, and for me, through my…

— Ray Dalio