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Ronald Fisher Quote: 'Natural selection is not evolution. ...'

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Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.


Peter Agre
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.
Richard Dawkins
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.
Stephen Jay Gould
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The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.
Paul Bloom
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It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
Michael Behe
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian.
Greg Graffin
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The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan.
Stacey Dash
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.
David Attenborough
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
John Burroughs
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Thurgood Marshall
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.


John Drinkwater
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The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.
Keith Haring
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.


Vladimir Nabokov
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Evolution is a tinkerer.


Francois Jacob
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There are no shortcuts in evolution.


Louis D. Brandeis
When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
Laura Mennell
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I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.
John F. Kerry
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Life is a process of evolution.


Leroy Hood
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We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.


Bill Hicks
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