Selection Quotes
339 quotes by 247 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Caste is important for selection of home minister.
— Sushilkumar Shinde
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Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount…
— Vince Edwards
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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
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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
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Free choice - a small selection between pre-established necessities.
— Herbert Marcuse
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Selection Quotes
247 authors contributed a total of 339 Selection Quotes, led by these top contributors: