Selection Quotes

339 quotes by 247 authors

Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or… — Robert Ardrey
What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by… — Robert Ardrey
One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a… — Bill Nighy
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. — Finley Peter Dunne
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. — Charles Darwin
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a… — Alain de Botton
Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain de Botton
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. — Kenneth Burke
I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the… — Mike Krzyzewski
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural… — Ernst Mayr
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get… — Rupert Sheldrake
I think it's our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea. — Joseph Roth
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. — William Osler
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness… — Henry Adams
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. — Alfred North Whitehead
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of… — Stephen Jay Gould
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other… — Stephen Jay Gould
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin

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