 It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, 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, whenever and...  The God Delusion - Page 180by Richard Dawkins - 2011 - 464 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | Social sciences - 1909 - 444 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."1 But this is only another way of saying... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - History of mathematics - 1909 - 318 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...opportunity" offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | Alfred Fairhurst - Evolution - 1913 - 502 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | Frederic Mathews - Social problems - 1914 - 706 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." Such is the briefest possible statement... | |
 | 1921 - 560 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working whenever and...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - Anthropology - 1922 - 216 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are \>ad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - Anthropology - 1922 - 216 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - Science - 1924 - 312 pages
...which we are apt to consider as of very trifling importance, may be thus acted It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising,...opportunity offers at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - Biology - 1926 - 470 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working whenever and...opportunity offers at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
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