"Mutation is random; natural selection is the very……" — Richard Dawkins
"Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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More Mutation Quotes
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation…
— Julian Huxley
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic…
— Arthur Koestler
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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with…
— Rajneesh
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It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.
— Richard Goldschmidt
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You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of…
— Kane
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is…
— Roland Barthes
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We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are…
— Pierre-Paul Grasse
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It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a…
— Nadine Gordimer
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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re…
— Paulo Coelho
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First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
— Daniel Nathans
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Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the…
— Francis Crick
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