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Natural Selection Quotes

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Lynn Margulis
Natural, Natural Selection, Selection

Natural selection is not evolution.

Ronald Fisher
Evolution, Natural, Natural Selection
"The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1930.

Natural selection is anything but random.

Richard Dawkins
Natural, Natural Selection, Selection
Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.204, Random House

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Charles Darwin
Origin Of Species, Natural Selection, Strongest
Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.247, Broadview Press

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

Charles Darwin
Thinking, Natural, Natural Selection
Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.154, Hackett Publishing

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

Charles Darwin
Natural, Natural Selection, Has Beens
Charles Darwin (1875). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.107

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