The Selection Quotes

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.

I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

I’ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better.... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!!

What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

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 even allowed it to multiply.

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

...I want it to be as easy as breathing for you to say yes.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

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 in smarts.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

I have to say, that's pretty typical for artists, kind of embarrassingly typical for artists that everything is all about selection.

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

You can look up "heart" and get 100,000 voices, but slowly the ones at the end are no longer credible, so there will be a selection in Web sites, too.

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.