The Selection Quotes
A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.
I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.
My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the beat selection that puts me in a down south mind frame.
...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.
Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.
It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.
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 to accomplish this process.
Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.
My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.
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 of natural selection.
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.
We know you're strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.
It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun altogether.
Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.
Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?
You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.
Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.
I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.
Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.
Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.
Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.