Biology Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and…

— Steven Pinker

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

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

— Wendell Berry

“Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is only by…

— Aldous Huxley

“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

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

— Elliott Sober

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 tendency of everyone is to evolve.

— Romario

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

— Daniel Dennett

“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us…

— Abhijit Naskar

I think if you push to get to know somebody, it's not a natural evolution.

— Ann Reinking