Darwinism Quote by Karl Popper

“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

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

— Samuel Wilberforce

“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

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

— Charles Darwin

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 Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.”

— Maureen Dowd

“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

“evolution is smart, and it chooses the least of all the”

— Lee Child

“...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

“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in…

— E.F. Schumacher