Selection Quotes

339 quotes by 247 authors

In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine… — Douglas Rushkoff
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. Itâ€™s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the… — Anne Tyler
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past… — Janet Fitch
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural.… — Timothy Keller
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of her companions, that… — Thomas S. Monson
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?'… — Terry Pratchett
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice,… — John Cheever
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,… — Charles Darwin
Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day."… — Nora Roberts
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what… — Charles Darwin
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to… — William A. Dembski
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered… — William James
...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal… — Malcolm Gladwell
What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of… — Malcolm Gladwell
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so… — Charles Darwin
The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite. — Kiera Cass
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning… — Georgia O'Keeffe
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more. — Tracy Letts
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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