Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out… — Vance Joy Copy Share Image
Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of… — Adrienne Bailon Copy Share Image
Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Attitude is really important to me and I talk about that with the players. Often players don't realise that if they've missed… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
If you're trying to cast the widest possible net to attract the largest selection of men or women, the last thing you… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem of Obamacare is the insurance mandates. When you mandate what has to be insurance, it elevates the price. And… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night… — Mark Gottfried Copy Share Image
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The debate can be put in the form of the question: Resolved, that the best of money managers cannot be demonstrated to… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States'… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Yes there was a lot of buzz about me before the World Cup selection because I was consistent and aware about the… — Shreyas Iyer Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360… — Bernhard Goetz Copy Share Image
Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection.… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
