Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I'm living two blocks away from this library - and I don't know why I was so elated about this - but… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital. — Joseph Stalin 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
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
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler 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
