#darwin

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#america #called #darwinism #did #embraced

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#american history #called #darwinism #embraced #exist

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#authors #being #creators #darwinian #demoted

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#business #change #darwinian #die #doing

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. ↗

— Leon C. Megginson

#change #charles-darwin #darwin #intelligence #misattributed

You'd think that people would have figured out by now that sticking a fork into the toaster is perhaps not the best idea. Oh well, score another point for Darwinism, I suppose. ↗

— Gary Whitta

#death #death

You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family. ↗

— Dr. Charles Darwin -- to his teenage son

#parenting #family