Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and… — Roger Delano Hinkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
You just click and you get 18,000 screen shots on how to apply lipstick, for example, but there will be the same… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin 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
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
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen...like… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in… — H. G. Wells 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
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 selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . .… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“The selection rate is less than three per cent. Most of us can’t crack these tests, basic probability. But who will drill… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock,… — Aaron Eckhart 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
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
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
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically? — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better… I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!! — Michael Vaughan Copy Share Image
Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller 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
