Adam Quote by Robert H. Frank

“Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which…

— Friedrich Engels

“a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and exploitative tendencies…

— Richard Dawkins

The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the…

— Philippe Kahn

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to,…

— Richard Dawkins

“universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense.”

— Richard Dawkins

“there is a pressure for genes to be selfish, but in an enlightened way, to collaborate, coordinate, and play their small part in ensuring…

— Daniel Bor

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as…

— George Eliot

“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity…

— George Orwell

“Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-binding" being. This theory is only…

— Alfred Korzybski

“it is thought to be somehow related to Adam Smith’s invisible hand, the workings of which are both overstated and mysterious.”

— Richard H. Thaler

“As Darwin pointed out in The Origin of Species (opening pages of chapter three), the 'struggle for existence' can often be described just as…

— Mary Midgley