Selection Quotes

339 quotes by 247 authors

One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion… — Albert Einstein
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and… — Peter Watts
There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I… — Richard Dawkins
Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of… — Howard Zinn
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers… — William Kristol
Caste is important for selection of home minister. — Sushilkumar Shinde
Why not directing?Â Thereâ€™s no big mystery about it.Â Itâ€™s â€“ well, itâ€™s just having a point of view and â€“ and a certain amount… — Vince Edwards
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of… — David Eagleman
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise… — Terry Pratchett
Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities. — Herbert Marcuse
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will… — Stephen Breyer
Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home,… — Ted Rall
There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job. . . . If you find the need for a leader and… — Ira C. Eaker
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves… — E. O. Wilson
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted… — John L. Harper
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view… — Herodotus
The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also… — Lavinia Greenlaw
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I… — Louise Brown

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