Selection Quotes

339 quotes by 247 authors

This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy.… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the… — Sourav Ganguly
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history of… — Herbert Spencer
Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any… — Ernst Haeckel
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought.… — Pete Rozelle
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution,… — Ernst Mayr
The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks… — Richard V. Allen
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the… — Rossiter Johnson
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for… — Mark Pagel
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and… — Anton Szandor LaVey
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that… — Christopher Langan
Iâ€™ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch. — Lamar Johnson
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know youâ€™re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. — Guy Kawasaki
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that… — Francis Galton
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does… — Shashi Tharoor
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one… — Robert J. Sawyer
I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes… — Jerry Pournelle
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies… — Chauncey Wright

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