Beautiful Quote by Paul Bettany

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

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that…

— George Bernard Shaw

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it…

— Oscar Wilde

“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 has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.”

— Carl Sagan

“...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

I believe that the moral of this natural occurrence, is that we are all born to find and fix our own shortcomings; rather than…

— Anonymous

Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the…

— Mark Pagel

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

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

— Daniel Dennett

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