Quotes about Selection

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Votes: 4

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter. Votes: 3

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery. Votes: 3

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable. Votes: 3

Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better.... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!! Votes: 3

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. Votes: 3

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite. Votes: 3

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification. Votes: 3

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being. Votes: 3

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time. Votes: 3

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. Votes: 3

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element. Votes: 3

I think people forget that to be on the A list you first had to go through the original graded Parliamentary Selection Board. I did that and then like everyone else had the further interviews to get onto the A list. Votes: 3

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life. Votes: 3

This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character. Votes: 3

Life on Earth is not the result of a series of miracles performed by a supernatural god-creator, and it is definitely not a product of matter having a mind of its own, of an equally miraculous evolutionary process supervised by Lady Natural Selection who would turn rabbits into lions. Votes: 3

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. Votes: 2

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create. Votes: 2

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. Votes: 2

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. Votes: 2

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. Votes: 2

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. Votes: 2

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity. Votes: 2

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. Votes: 2

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. Votes: 2

Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights. Votes: 2

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. Votes: 2

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. Votes: 2

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. Votes: 2

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. Votes: 2

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. Votes: 2

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. Votes: 2

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. Votes: 2

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways. Votes: 2

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? Votes: 2

For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down. Votes: 2

In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links. Votes: 2

Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. Votes: 2

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. Votes: 2

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. Votes: 2

I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk. Votes: 2

Love is exclusivity, selection. Votes: 0

Natural selection is not evolution. Votes: 0

Natural selection is anything but random. Votes: 0

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. Votes: 0

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. Votes: 0

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection Votes: 0

Caste is important for selection of home minister. Votes: 0

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.... Votes: 0

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. Votes: 0

Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities. Votes: 0

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter. Votes: 0

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital. Votes: 0

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. Votes: 0

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. Votes: 0

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. Votes: 0

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. Votes: 0

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection. Votes: 0

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. Votes: 0

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. Votes: 0

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. Votes: 0

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. Votes: 0

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. Votes: 0

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself. Votes: 0

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. Votes: 0

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice. Votes: 0

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive Votes: 0

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting. Votes: 0

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' Votes: 0

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely Votes: 0

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Votes: 0

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically? Votes: 0

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. Votes: 0

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. Votes: 0

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. Votes: 0

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence. Votes: 0

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Votes: 0

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet. Votes: 0

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. Votes: 0

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. Votes: 0

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. Votes: 0

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. Votes: 0

I’ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch. Votes: 0

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more. Votes: 0

One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams. Votes: 0

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. Votes: 0

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing. Votes: 0

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. Votes: 0

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. Votes: 0

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. Votes: 0

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. Votes: 0

Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things Votes: 0

I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration. Votes: 0

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process Votes: 0

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. Votes: 0

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism. Votes: 0

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator. Votes: 0

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. Votes: 0

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. Votes: 0

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. Votes: 0

I think it's our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea. Votes: 0

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. Votes: 0

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing. Votes: 0

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation. Votes: 0

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement Votes: 0

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. Votes: 0

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. Votes: 0

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. Votes: 0

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. Votes: 0

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable. Votes: 0

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Votes: 0

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. Votes: 0

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. Votes: 0

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. Votes: 0

I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed. Votes: 0

I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection. Votes: 0

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. Votes: 0

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. Votes: 0

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe. Votes: 0

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. Votes: 0

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. Votes: 0

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. Votes: 0

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile. Votes: 0

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work. Votes: 0

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations. Votes: 0

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment. Votes: 0

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. Votes: 0

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. Votes: 0

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name Votes: 0

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. Votes: 0

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time. Votes: 0

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator. Votes: 0

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended. Votes: 0

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. Votes: 0

I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences. Votes: 0

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them. Votes: 0

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. Votes: 0

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. Votes: 0

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. Votes: 0

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture. Votes: 0

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done. Votes: 0

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices. Votes: 0

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. Votes: 0

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well. Votes: 0

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains." Votes: 0

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. Votes: 0

Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip club. Votes: 0

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement. Votes: 0

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. Votes: 0

'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights. Votes: 0

I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection. Votes: 0

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking. Votes: 0

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Votes: 0

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. Votes: 0

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices. Votes: 0

I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. Votes: 0

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. Votes: 0

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. Votes: 0

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources. Votes: 0

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species. Votes: 0

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. Votes: 0

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. Votes: 0

Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society. Votes: 0

Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours. Votes: 0

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science. Votes: 0

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection. Votes: 0

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. Votes: 0

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes. Votes: 0

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. Votes: 0

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know. Votes: 0

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them. Votes: 0

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy. Votes: 0

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection. Votes: 0

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection. Votes: 0

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people. Votes: 0

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited. Votes: 0

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour. Votes: 0

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection. Votes: 0

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. Votes: 0

There are many, many pricey streets in the Hamptons. There's South Hampton, Bridge Hampton and East Hampton, the three major towns. East Hampton has the largest selection of celebrities. Votes: 0

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level. Votes: 0

You can look up "heart" and get 100,000 voices, but slowly the ones at the end are no longer credible, so there will be a selection in Web sites, too. Votes: 0

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process. Votes: 0

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change. Votes: 0

We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone. Votes: 0

In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply. Votes: 0

Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared. Votes: 0

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. Votes: 0

In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them. Votes: 0

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection. Votes: 0

Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation and competition between specialized populations within a group. Votes: 0

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children? Votes: 0

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much. Votes: 0

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output. Votes: 0

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both. Votes: 0

Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals. Votes: 0

The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer, as have the relationships that connect different theoretical approaches. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers. Votes: 0

What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives. Votes: 0

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. Votes: 0

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. Votes: 0

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think. Votes: 0

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture. Votes: 0

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands. Votes: 0

It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you. Votes: 0

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. Votes: 0

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us. Votes: 0

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely. Votes: 0

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward. Votes: 0

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection. Votes: 0

You just click and you get 18,000 screen shots on how to apply lipstick, for example, but there will be the same selection that has taken place in paper in digital, too. Votes: 0

A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own. Votes: 0

Why not directing? There's no big mystery about it. It's – well, it's just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste. Votes: 0

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates. Votes: 0

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it. Votes: 0

Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal. Votes: 0

Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success. Votes: 0

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority. Votes: 0

With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another. Votes: 0

Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read. Votes: 0

Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. Votes: 0

Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution. Votes: 0

The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come. Votes: 0

There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism. Votes: 0

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. Votes: 0

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional Votes: 0

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian. Votes: 0

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male. Votes: 0

What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life. Votes: 0

My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the beat selection that puts me in a down south mind frame. Votes: 0

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred. Votes: 0

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred. Votes: 0

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space. Votes: 0

McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed. Votes: 0

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. Votes: 0

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change. Votes: 0

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity. Votes: 0

We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that. Votes: 0

Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy. Votes: 0

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language. Votes: 0

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection ... Votes: 0

The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average. Votes: 0

You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo. Votes: 0

Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate group selection, even if they do not use the g-word. Votes: 0

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been, Votes: 0

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy? Votes: 0

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway. Votes: 0

I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I'm a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate. Votes: 0

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts. Votes: 0

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. Votes: 0

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society. Votes: 0

Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection. Votes: 0

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average. Votes: 0

The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just cause them to evolve into a sneakier, more robust breed. Votes: 0

Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken. Votes: 0

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. Votes: 0

While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection. Votes: 0

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Votes: 0

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. Votes: 0

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection. Votes: 0

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Votes: 0

We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture. Votes: 0

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction "” just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success. Votes: 0

anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently. Votes: 0

Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material. Votes: 0