Selection Quotes

339 quotes by 247 authors

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't… — Dick Motta
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. — John of Salisbury
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend… — Charles Darwin
Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature;… — David B. Haight
Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its… — Jonah Goldberg
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political… — Geoffrey Miller
If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER… — Anuj
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended. — Charles Lindbergh
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen
In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have… — David Klinghoffer
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. — Edmund Burke
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards… — Konrad Lorenz
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. — John Drinkwater
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. — Irving Babbitt
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,… — Richard Leakey
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. — Richard Leakey
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really… — Burt Rutan
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its… — Vernor Vinge

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