Biology Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices,…

— Ayn Rand

“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Individual differences in intelligence might to a significant extent be attributable to variations in the number and nature of such slightly deleterious alleles that…

— Nick Bostrom

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble… Nature never appeals to intelligence…

— H. G. Wells

We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual…

— Hubert Reeves

“The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction. But”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

— Doug Larson

“Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people.”

— Erika Johansen

“I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the…

— David McCullough

“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

“(7) Evolution contradicts the scientific law that no effect can be greater than its cause, since it assumes that intelligence was developed from non-intelligent…

— Henry M. Morris III