Natural-selection Quotes

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nat...

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the s...

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization ...

He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surpr...

Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instinct...

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based ...

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the s...

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, an...

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to ...

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individua...

Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter ...

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply lik...

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvary...

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a s...

...if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in...

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that n...

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s poi...

Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review b...

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which...

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

The arms race between [predators] and [prey] is asymmetric, in which success on either side is felt ...

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a...

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th...

Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workabl...

It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some...

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped liv...

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheri...

It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causat...

People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have m...

George Williams, the revered evolutionary biologist, describes the natural world as “grossly immoral...

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...