Natural selection Quote by Richard Dawkins Download Open image ““Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.”” — Richard Dawkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Natural selection Nature
“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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.” — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what traits were… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The second irony of evolutionary biology is that this transubstantiation of natural theology into the grand narrative of natural selection has itself taken the… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
“Fears were learned, but they were also inherited. Natural Selection. Run from the lion. Jump away from the tiny, poisonous insects. They exist for… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
