„Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature. This resonance, extracted by natural selection, between our brains and the universe may help explain a quandary set by Einstein: The most incomprehensible property of the universe, he said, is that it is so comprehensible.“

— Carl Sagan

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„Natural Selection is not evolution.“
— Ronald Fisher
„The history of science—especially physics—has in part been the tension between the natural tendency to project our everyday experience on the universe and the universe's noncompliance…“
— Carl Sagan
„The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.“
— Zeno of Citium
„Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases — the second law of thermodynamics — holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature'. It is not a little instructive that so similar a law [the fundamental theorem of natural selection] should hold the supreme position among the biological sciences.“
— Ronald Fisher