Quotes About Selection

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival.

Position in the male hierarchy is only one factor in the mating game. The other one is female preference.

when the cost of believing a false pattern is real is less than the cost of believing the genuine pattern, natural selection will favor the false pattern.

What can it mean, 150 years after Darwin, to say that some species or communities are good and some are bad?

from miserable, starving children' to 'picking winners',

Shouldn't we be as rigorous in hiring as we are in capital spending?

Our names and titles are assigned randomly by a small monkey who has been fed an exceedingly large amount of gin.

PICK YOUR FABRIC "The importance of this step cannot be understated. If you pick the wrong fabric, your dress is doomed from the start. Pick a fabric that has the right weight, that will flatter the design. And the figure of the bride who will wear it. Once you pick your fabric, the die is cast. There is no going back.

i am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt, Selection, Passage, and Abridged.

When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.

If you could see none but the people I like, my dear, you'd have a very small society.

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin , though he discussed Spencer's 'excellent expression' in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace (Jul 1866) .}

Consumptive patients, with lungs incompetent to perform the duties of lungs, people with defective hearts that break down under excitement of the circulation, people with any constitutional flaw preventing the due fulfillment of the conditions of life are continually dying out and leaving behind those fit for the climate, food, and habits to which they are born....And thus is the race kept free from vitiation.

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.

I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.

Yes, you tend to lose patience but selection is not in your hands. All you can do is perform, perform and perform and that's what I enjoy doing.

Do I consider the 2003 Draft class the best ever? Yes, absolutely!

I started going training with Southampton, and they were selecting the team for the under-9s. I did a six-week trial and got in. I was quite lucky to play at a good standard from a very young age.

If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.