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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
— Umberto Eco
There's almost a Darwinian quality about the NFL.
— Steve Fainaru
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.
— Richard Dawkins
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
— Richard Dawkins
NASA 'working definition' of life, for example: life is 'a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution'.
— Nick Lane
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.
— Denis Hayes
As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?
— Leroy Cronin
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.
— Richard Dawkins
boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals - something
— Neal Stephenson
A mischievous biologist might wonder whether some other physicists are in need of Darwinian consciousness-raising.
— Richard Dawkins
There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.
— Peter Greenaway
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
— Richard Dawkins
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
— Susan George
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
— Dick Morris
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
— Oscar Wilde
It went bust," said Uncle Alex, with a certain grim, Darwinian satisfaction. My
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He sketches a world of Darwinian struggle where all the savages wear three-piece suits.
— Stephen King
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
— David Quammen
You are the first to arrive alive in fifty years. You are a puissant man. Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of the Holy Darwin. Most scientific.
— Alfred Bester
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
— Simon Conway Morris
If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.
— Bruce Lipton
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
— Helen Fisher
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
— Daniel Dennett
Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.
— Richard Weikart
Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.
— Ludwig Boltzmann
Things don't look hopeful for Darwinian naturalists.
— Alvin Plantinga
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.
— Tina Brown
Journalism is a Darwinian process.
— Denise Mina
If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
— John Eccles
Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.
— Nancy Kress
[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
— Edward O. Wilson
Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,
— Steve Merrick
Stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.
— Laura Lippman
Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.
— Ray Comfort
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
— Tom Stoppard
Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.
— George Hammond
The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.
— Edward O. Wilson