The Selection Quotes

The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one that is making many people sick.

Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.

Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled.

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.

That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.

She wanted to be herself at all costs.