Blake Crouch Quotes

Nature does nothing in vain.

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.

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

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

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

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

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Natural selection is not evolution.

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

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

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

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.

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.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.