If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they… — Sepp Blatter Copy Share Image
Since I don't have an image to be worried about, I am not concerned about it when it comes to selection of… — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things — Mike Teti Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic.… — Jeffrey Gundlach Copy Share Image
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning… — Anonymous 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
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — Jane Jacobs 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
While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
