Quotes About Selection

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.

That is to say, our physical ability to understand time has been honed by evolutionary pressures to select for traits useful for survival, in all aspects, and time perception is no exception or special case or even magical or mysterious case.

The timing of Moroun's hat giveaway stunt was as unfortunate as the selection of hats themselves. They were not your run-of-the-mill knitwear; they were, in fact, ski masks. The type gunmen use to stick up liquor stores.

Beauty has laws, and an appreciation of them is not possessed equally by all. The more primitive and ignorant a race, or class, the less it knows of true beauty. The Indian basket-maker wove beautiful things but they did not know it; give them the cheap and ugly productions of our greedy "market" and they like them better. They may unconsciously produce beauty, but they do not consciously select it.

She reached for the Dr. Pepper and put it in with the Pepsi.

The selection rate is less than three per cent. Most of us can't crack these tests, basic probability. But who will drill it into our parents' heads?

Suitable guys are an endangered species

the weak shall not fight only the strong are the chosen ones.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

The difference between bad and worse is a lot bigger than the difference between good and better.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

De todas las criaturas vivientes, sólo el ser humano tiene, en el grado más alto, la facultad de elegir y expresar su voluntad,

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —ANDRÉ MAUROIS

Sometimes correct decisions are not good decisions

Choose friends by their character and socks by their colour.

One thing that is good about librarians is they listen to what you need and want and think of a way to help you which sometimes is by ignoring what you need and want. Maybe they do not have the book you requested because their library is nothing but leftovers. Or maybe what you requested is wrong-people often are, even smart people who read-but it is okay because librarians have witchlike librarian magic to pick the right book for you

people often are, even smart people who read—but it is okay because librarians have witchlike librarian magic to pick the right book for you.

Nature isn't benign," Lederberg said at the meeting's opening. "The bottom lines: the units of natural selection—DNA, sometimes RNA elements—are by no means neatly packaged in discrete organisms. They all share the entire biosphere. The survival of the human species is not a preordained evolutionary program. Abundant sources of genetic variation exist for viruses to learn new tricks, not necessarily confined to what happens routinely, or even frequently.

Dear CDC, in 2015, when it comes time to select the next flu vaccine, GUESS BETTER!!!

The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.

I have therefore focused, in the main narrative, on only the best of the stories and on those eleven novels-Eye in the Sky (1957), Time Out of Joint (1959), Confessions of a Crap Artist (w. 1959, p. 1975), The Man in the High Castle (1962), Martian Time-Slip (1964), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Ubik (1969), Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), A Scanner Darkly (1977), Valis (1981), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)-that