Selection Quotes

My shot selection has to be good to score big runs.

— Virender Sehwag

Essentially, bad shot selection is a turnover.

— Lauri Markkanen

Caste is important for selection of home minister.

— Sushilkumar Shinde

Natural selection is not evolution.

— Ronald Fisher

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom…

— Bergen Evans

Natural selection is anything but random.

— Richard Dawkins

“What you choose also chooses you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

An interview is about mutual selection.

— Caroline Ghosn

Every concert of mine is different in terms of song selection.

— Asha Bhosle

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

— John Drinkwater

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

— Peter Agre

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

— N. T. Wright

“Make your summer reading selection at (signupgenius link)!”

— GHS Summer Reading

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

— Robert Crippen

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

— Louis Kahn

“Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.”

— C.M. Stunich

Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft…

— Brian Urlacher

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

— Finley Peter Dunne

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for…

— Charles Darwin

“I cannot emphasize enough how important the selection, training, testing, evaluation, and sorting out of people is.”

— Ray Dalio

Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion…

— Henry D. Moyle

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection…

— Peter Singer

It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process…

— Owen Wilson

Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning…

— Anonymous

The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then…

— Jerry Fodor

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new…

— Lynn Margulis

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the…

— Edmund Burke

In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which…

— Charles Darwin

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust,…

— B. F. Skinner

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established,…

— Paul Davies

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own…

— Rose Macaulay

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their…

— Donald E. Westlake

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . .…

— James Q. Wilson

We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a…

— Steven Novella

“Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as…

— Charles Darwin

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are…

— Thomas Jefferson

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals…

— George Bernard Shaw