Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has… — Dick Motta Copy Share Image
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations;… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber;… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more… — Mia Moretti Copy Share Image
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In some parts of the world, that sex selection for boys - and it's usually for boys - reflects sex discrimination against… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among… — Umberto Guidoni Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings,… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Now I want to play with the Ivory Coast. It has been rewarding, firstly because I am proud to play for my… — Wilfried Zaha Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion.… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job. . . . If you find the need for… — Ira C. Eaker Copy Share Image
They used to have selection days for all the local kids and I went to these trials three times and got turned… — Ryan Babel Copy Share Image
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