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Natural selection is anything but random.
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...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the t...
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Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
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MOXIE MEZCAL What I'd like to see is natural selection.
GINGER KATHERNS In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary...
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...
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What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major sub...
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Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
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Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale
RICHARD DAWKINS![]()
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
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Smoking will probably kill me, but so will natural selection.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the s...
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It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causat...
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the t...
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The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the...
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we ...
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This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express
in mechanical terms, is that whic...
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ERIC MILLER Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de...
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GLENN BRANCH![]()
Charles Darwin got his theory, his notion of natural selection, evolution, and so did its independen...
PAUL SAMUELSON The weakness of the dollar is having some impact on the market. The weakest sector is the auto secto...
IAN SCOTT
RICHARD O. PRUM We expect continued high coal and natural gas prices to provide challenges for our generating busine...
CANNING FOK Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if ...
MICHAEL BEHE Suffice to say, our murder rate is exceedingly high and exceedingly troublesome.
HARRY SHORSTEIN
Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal co... ABHIJIT NASKAR Natural selection is not evolution.
RONALD FISHER If scientists seriously think natural selection applies to humans, they haven't been in high school ...
KAYLE STORM
Natural selection is anything but random. RICHARD DAWKINS Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.
LYNN MARGULIS
...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the t... ERNST MAYR
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. RICHARD DAWKINS We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we...
MOXIE MEZCAL What I'd like to see is natural selection.
GINGER KATHERNS In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary...
RICHARD O. PRUM
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di... CHARLES DARWIN
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use i... GREG GRAFFIN
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major sub... STEPHEN JAY GOULD There is a high degree of uncertainty
JEFF BERG
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. ANDREW LO
But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the na... RICHARD DAWKINS
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di... CHARLES DARWIN
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. BERNARD BRANSON We had a good selection of candidates, but the one we chose is the one who's good for Midland High S...
LINDA JOLLY
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale RICHARD DAWKINS
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. RICHARD DAWKINS
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Econo... IRVING FISHER
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do... VERNOR VINGE Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that...
MARK PAGEL
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. RICHARD DAWKINS The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
JERRY POURNELLE
Smoking will probably kill me, but so will natural selection. CARROLL BRYANT The fact that the association is statistically significant despite the crudeness of our estimates su...
DANIEL FUNK Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of t...
DANIEL DENNETT
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A ... RICHARD DAWKINS
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. SHANIA TWAIN The Univac introduced the use of the magnetic tape drive to be -- for its time -- a high-volume I/O ...
GEORGE GRAY Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. B...
KARL R. POPPER
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply lik... IAN MCEWAN
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear ... CHARLES DARWIN This is an academic enterprise of a particular kind in the fine arts: taking a program and honing it...
JOHN RUSSELL
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech ... THOMAS MANN Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds a...
DANIEL DENNETT
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, ... BILL BRYSON I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term...
CHARLES R. DARWIN
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term o... CHARLES DARWIN
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term o... CHARLES DARWIN
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. AMBROSE BIERCE The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense you...
PAUL BETTANY Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction ...
DANIEL DENNETT
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many diffe... KENNETH BURKE If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
ZANE STUMPO You're seeing the effects of an electricity pricing mechanism that's tied to the cost of natural gas...
JAMES HALLORAN
Money is a mechanism for control. DAVID KORTEN
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. AMBROSE BIERCE
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. AMBROSE BIERCE
Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. AMBROSE BIERCE
Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workabl... RICHARD DAWKINS A college degree should have a higher requirement for completion than a high school diploma.
DENNIS KORN Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri... RICHARD DAWKINS
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri... RICHARD DAWKINS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM This study should ease the fears of some of people who believe that sex selection technology will be...
DR. TARUN JAIN Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. ...
ROBERT WRIGHT
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th... RICHARD DAWKINS
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the s... CHARLES DARWIN
It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causat... STEVEN PINKER This continues the venerable Darwinian tradition of making grandiose claims based on piddling result...
MICHAEL BEHE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the t... E. O. WILSON
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the... TOMMY CHONG Natural selection has favored the ability to have culture, because many of these actions have to do ...
CAREL SCHAIK Natural selection has favored the ability to have culture, because many of these actions have to do ...
CAREL VAN SCHAIK
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we ... E. O. WILSON
There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corr... WILLIAM LAW The market has a high degree of confidence the Fed will avoid
WILLIAM POOLE Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should...
CHAUNCEY WRIGHT
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival wi... RICHARD DAWKINS
I will be a fisher of souls! LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about ...
RICK PERLSTEIN The gallery is generating work for the masses.
KIM WESTON the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin
KARIN TANSEK
This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express
in mechanical terms, is that whic... HERBERT SPENCER
The survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which ... HERBERT SPENCER To a large degree, it's a result of the oil market. Crude oil is approaching all-time highs here. Th...
BOB YAWGER
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous... BARBARA EHRENREICH
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very g... HENRY KISSINGER Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it&...
FRANK TIPLER It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth wou...
MAURICE WILKINS
For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a ... ROBERT REDFORD I wouldn't be surprised if he became student president. He is an exceedingly bright student.
JOHN MCADAMS Sometimes reading best-rated quotes of the day on "Quotes Daddy", one would feel strong desire and t...
ANUJ SOMANY In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and...
JUSTIN ROSENSTEIN An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in th...
R.W. VAN BEMMELEN To an extent, Greenspan was a lesser-known quantity at the Fed (in 1987), as opposed to the Fed now ...
ERIC MILLER Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de...
OLIVER SACKS Biologists are split on this point. A lot of scientists regard natural selection as one of the means...
GLENN BRANCH
Charles Darwin got his theory, his notion of natural selection, evolution, and so did its independen... PAUL SAMUELSON The weakness of the dollar is having some impact on the market. The weakest sector is the auto secto...
IAN SCOTT
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