Selection Quotes

339 quotes by 247 authors

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. — E. O. Wilson
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To… — James E. Faust
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind… — Jason Silva
Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that… — Richard Dawkins
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly… — Richard Dawkins
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. — Richard Dawkins
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet… — Richard Dawkins
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated… — Richard Dawkins
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals,… — John Tyler Bonner
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. — John Tyler Bonner
Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more… — Virginia Postrel
The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it… — Paul Bloom
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures.… — Paul Bloom
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through… — Tom Cotton
Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is. — Peter Agre
During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half… — Bernhard Goetz
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we… — B.F. Skinner

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