Selection Quotes

339 quotes by 247 authors

Natural selection is anything but random. — Richard Dawkins
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of… — Richard Dawkins
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a… — Richard Dawkins
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett
For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people would pay for… — Beth Ditto
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Natural selection is not evolution. — Ronald Fisher
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn
Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed… — Ashton Kutcher
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. — Thurgood Marshall
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on… — Yoko Ono
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is… — Steven Pinker
I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out.… — Eric Ries
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and… — David Rockefeller
McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did… — Eric Schlosser
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
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. — E. O. Wilson
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. — E. O. Wilson
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human… — E. O. Wilson
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact… — Charles Jencks

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