Adaptation Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“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

“No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may…

— Brian Herbert

“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take…

— Robert Wright

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“The brain is much more flexible and adaptable than previously thought. It can evolve and creatively work around limitations and nullify them.”

— James Morcan

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 has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the…

— Karl Popper

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

— George Gissing

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard