#selection

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #car #design #designer #engineer

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#exceedingly #generating #high #high degree #improbability

Natural selection is not evolution. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#natural #natural selection #selection

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#affinities #beauty #emerges #integration #love

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. ↗

— Maurice Wilkins

#copies #could #disorder #essential #exact

He gave a dark chuckle. “But you’re not, so you had absolutely no qualms about kneeing me in the groin, right?” “I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh,” he replied, his voice full of skepticism. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#humor #prince-maxon #the-selection #humor

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#cultures #different #different cultures #evaluate #institutions

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed. ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #natural-selection #neo-darwinism

Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#natural-selection #change

...and specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was up to the task of creating something like him. This was some god’s, somewhere’s, handiwork. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#evolution #humor #humour #intelligent-design #natural-selection