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Natural Selection Quotes

Life on Earth is not the result of a series of miracles performed by a supernatural god-creator, and it is definitely not a product of matter having a mind of its own, of an equally miraculous evolutionary process supervised by Lady Natural Selection who would turn rabbits into lions Picture Quote #1

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Picture Quote #1

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn’t explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place Picture Quote #1

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change Picture Quote #1

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element Picture Quote #1

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life Picture Quote #1

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Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random Picture Quote #1

Natural selection is not evolution Picture Quote #1

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn’t create Picture Quote #1

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability Picture Quote #1

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree... The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory Picture Quote #1

Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe Picture Quote #1

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Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent Picture Quote #1

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? Picture Quote #1

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity Picture Quote #1

Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition Picture Quote #1

Every human mind you’ve ever looked at... Is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions Picture Quote #1

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture Picture Quote #1

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change Picture Quote #1

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics Picture Quote #1

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time Picture Quote #1

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe Picture Quote #1

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose Picture Quote #1

... by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous Picture Quote #1

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I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred Picture Quote #1

If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust? Picture Quote #1

I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most Picture Quote #1

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning Picture Quote #1

There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life, for example, there was never sufficient natural selection pressure to develop better eyes, individuals could earn other things like smiley smiles rather than waste energy and time on better eyes Picture Quote #1

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life Picture Quote #1

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Life on Earth is not the result of a series of miracles performed by a supernatural god-creator, and it is definitely not a product of matter having a mind of its own, of an equally miraculous evolutionary process supervised by Lady Natural Selection who would turn rabbits into lions. (Natural Selection Quotes) To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree (Natural Selection Quotes) Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn’t explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place (Natural Selection Quotes) The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change (Natural Selection Quotes) This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element (Natural Selection Quotes) Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life (Natural Selection Quotes) Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random (Natural Selection Quotes) Natural selection is not evolution (Natural Selection Quotes) Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn’t create (Natural Selection Quotes) Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability (Natural Selection Quotes) To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree... The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory (Natural Selection Quotes) Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe (Natural Selection Quotes) Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent (Natural Selection Quotes) Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? (Natural Selection Quotes) The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity (Natural Selection Quotes) Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition (Natural Selection Quotes) Every human mind you’ve ever looked at... Is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions (Natural Selection Quotes) Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture (Natural Selection Quotes) Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change (Natural Selection Quotes) We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics (Natural Selection Quotes) Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time (Natural Selection Quotes) Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe (Natural Selection Quotes) Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose (Natural Selection Quotes) ... by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous (Natural Selection Quotes) I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred (Natural Selection Quotes) If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust? (Natural Selection Quotes) I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most (Natural Selection Quotes) Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning (Natural Selection Quotes) There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life, for example, there was never sufficient natural selection pressure to develop better eyes, individuals could earn other things like smiley smiles rather than waste energy and time on better eyes (Natural Selection Quotes) Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life (Natural Selection Quotes)

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