Selection Quotes

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In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

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. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

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 would have perished in barbarous lands.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

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 will learn how to fly.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

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 Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop.

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

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 of elements.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.

Love is exclusivity, selection.

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.