Arise Quote by Michael Behe

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 theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must…

— Jerry Fodor

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

— Lynn Margulis

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very…

— Charles Darwin

“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

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to…

— E. O. Wilson

“Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as it becomes,…

— Charles Darwin

“If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years,…

— Carl Sagan

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

Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is…

— David M. Raup

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

Natural selection is anything but random.

— Richard Dawkins