Quotes About Selection

The only thing that makes me somewhat sceptical regarding human procreation is the unintelligent selection of parents. Some of the most unattractive individuals in the world feel they must multiply at all costs. They are apparently under the illusion that the burden of ugliness becomes lighter if it is shared with descendants.

En el caso de un hombre hermoso, el juego de las casualidades eligió el promedio de todas las dimensiones

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

You can't get every girl; you get the ones you love the best.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

It's like this…a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a feast if that's all he had. But if he had a buffet in front of him, the radish would never be chosen.

Over everything, I choose you

Ranking Can't decide who to Love!

suddenly I'm seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from.

Not all accidents are what they seem. Victims do no even know why they have been chosen.

Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.

Ramona V. Flowers: What kind of tea do you want? Scott Pilgrim: There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?

a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts at the stock listings can select a portfolio that performs as well as those managed by the experts.

The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger.

But humans have deliberately selected which plants and animals shall live and which shall die for thousands of years. We are surrounded from babyhood by familiar farm and domestic animals, fruits and trees and vegetables. Where do they come from? Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm? No, the truth is quite different. They are, most of them, made by us.

Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today.

This process is called artificial selection. In the case of the Heike crab it was effected more or less unconsciously by the fishermen, and certainly without any serious contemplation by the crabs. But humans have deliberately selected which plants and animals shall live and which shall die for thousands of years.

But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called natural selection. That life has changed fundamentally over the aeons is entirely clear from the alterations we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence.

Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.

If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Evolution is a fact, not a theory.

Those who avoid decapitation leave more offspring.

In the jury selection process, the court needs to be reassured that the verdict will be based on evidence.