Natural Selection Quotes

"Fear can be good. It’s an evolutionary sense that we’ve developed over many, many millions of years." "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change" "I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection" "Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law" "We are organisms that have evolved mechanisms for learning how to respond to our environments in ways that tend to increase our fitness" "In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced." "Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception" "The process of natural selection is smarter than you are." "Expecting an organism to evolve traits just because they are useful to us is a dangerous kind of anthropocentrism." "We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense" "Natural selection is anything but random." "It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work." "Evolution is the single greatest force in the universe; it’s the only thing that’s permanent, and it drives everything." "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."