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Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 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 acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create. — Lynn Margulis 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
I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job. — Owen Farrell Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza. — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to… — Danielle Panabaker Copy Share Image
When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
You know, I'm from Baltimore; nobody has anything. When somebody had talent, I was hiring my uncle, my cousin, you know? Getting people that… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.' — Billie Whitelaw Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
