Quotes About Selection

At Linus Pauling's sixtieth birthday celebration, a student asked him, "Dr. Pauling, how does one go about having good ideas?" He replied, "You have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

The domain of mental testing, including the whole concept of the IQ test and its uses, owes much of its success to the U.S. Army's need to have a way of selecting recruits for World War I.

Creativity testing owes its existence to World War II, when the air force commissioned J. P. Guilford, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, to study the subject. The air force wanted to select pilots who in an emergency—the unexpected failure of a gear or instrument—would respond with appropriately original behavior, saving themselves and the plane.

Every design is a trade-off.

The shelves of this store are stacked with stock. You will find a steamship, a sailing ship, and even a spaceship. There are several sorts of shoe and scores of signs and symbols. There is a sketch of a squinch, a selection of shells (not all from the sea), a siamang settled on a seat, a sponge to be studied, and sundry stuff suspended from strings. In all I included 1,234 Ss for you to see.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

It is secondary whether we choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to choose.

Choose a man on account of his skills.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

Abortion is a war against procreation itself and the acceptance of Darwin's philosophy of natural selection.

The Creator has blessed all His creations with the freedom of choice.

The story of Noah's Ark illustrates that only the few selected animals, as well as human beings, will ever see the gates of paradise.

The true definition of the word Aryan is not far from the ideologies of natural selection taught in Darwinism. The latter is idolized while the former is demonized by society, but they all speak the same language.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. But

Learn to distinguish what should be done and what not; The clever soul will always select his opportunity.

finally convinced her to buy the style she liked

winnowing of history,

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

God/creator/the universe gives us this pool to choose from - an infinite amount of opportunities and resources. This allows us to choose!

when you are clearly in touch with the person you truly are—the task of selecting the right marriage partner becomes significantly easier.

Men and women who know themselves well stand an excellent chance of selecting a mate well suited to them.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?