Jerry Garcia Quotes

Natural selection is anything but random.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.

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

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms.

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.