"Our Natural Place", p. 243
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983)
“For the record, natural selection is a highly nonrandom process that acts on the genetic variation produced by random mutation and genetic drift and results in those organisms with more adaptive traits differentially surviving and reproducing.”
Part 1 “Four Classical Arguments”, Chapter 2 “The Argument from Design (and Some Creationist Calculations)” (p. 19)
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up (2008)
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Source: The Dragons of Eden (1977), Chapter 2, “Genes and Brains” (p. 28)

“Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 2 “Good Design” (p. 41)
Price, G.R. (1995). "The nature of selection." Journal of Theoretical Biology 175:389-396 (written circa 1971)
Principles of Biochemistry, Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Biochemistry

“Mutation may be random, but selection definitely is not.”
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1980s and later, Knowledge, Evolution and Society (1983), "Coping with Ignorance", "Our Moral Heritage"