You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed. — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our… — Horace Copy Share Image
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at… — Brad Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Instagram has been around for what, maybe a couple of years? Already it has shut down some small blogs - it's a… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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