Natural Selection Quotes
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It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
— Charles Darwin
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
— Jacques Monod
We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.
— Steven Pinker
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
— Charles Darwin
The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.
— Julian Barnes
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
— Ronald A. Fisher
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Smoking will probably kill me, but so will natural selection.
— Carroll Bryant
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
— Charles Darwin
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
— Charles Darwin
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
— Richard Dawkins
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
— Richard Dawkins
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
— E. O. Wilson
We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.
— Maureen Dowd
But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.
— Sophie Kinsella
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.
— Richard Leakey
Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;
— Friedrich Nietzsche
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
— David Quammen
A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance
— Richard Dawkins
Natural selection awards no prize for second place.
— Thomas Lewis
Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we're made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.
— Carl Sagan
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
— Charles Darwin
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
— Konrad Lorenz
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
— Richard Dawkins
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
— Richard Dawkins
Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection
— Charles Darwin
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
— Norman Macbeth
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
— Richard Dawkins
Sexual selection will also be largely dominated by natural selection tending towards the general welfare of the species.
— Charles Darwin
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
— Daniel Dennett
Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.
— David Papineau
I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
— Charles Darwin
Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.
— Charles Darwin
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
— Richard Dawkins
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement
— Stephen Jay Gould
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
— Jared Diamond
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
— Charles Darwin
This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.
— Charles Darwin
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
— Richard Dawkins
Natural selection is not evolution.
— Ronald Fisher
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.
— John Tyler Bonner
Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.
— Robert Wright
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
— Richard Dawkins
Homosexuality is nature's way of keeping the population in check.
— Abhijit Naskar
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
— Charles Darwin
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
— Theodore Levitt
Natural selection is anything but random.
— Richard Dawkins
We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
— Stephen Jay Gould
In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.
— Richard Dawkins
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
— Richard Dawkins
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[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
