Selection Quotes

339 quotes by 247 authors

The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every… — James Q. Wilson
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or… — Herbert Spencer
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not… — Charles Darwin
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes… — Richard Dawkins
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would… — Kerry King
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,… — Charles Darwin
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. — Charles Darwin
Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes… — Asa Gray
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient… — Charles Stross
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we… — Jerry A. Coyne
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection… — Benito Mussolini
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection… — Anais Nin
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed… — John B. S. Haldane
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald Fisher
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art… — Gavin Newsom
Even if any given terminology is aÂ reflectionÂ of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be aÂ selectionÂ of reality; and… — Kenneth Burke
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the… — W. Eugene Smith
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel

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