Biology Quote by Lynn Margulis

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

— Lynn Margulis

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed…

— Lynn Margulis

“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

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

“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

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

— Steven Pinker

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform…

— Robert J. Sawyer

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been…

— Anonymous