Quotes About Selection

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

If you can't identify it, don't stick it in your mouth.

In this country people don't vote for, they vote against.

We had chosen as our next book club selection Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, as we'd both loved her 2003 novel The Namesake and her first book of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, which had won the Pulitzer in 1999.

Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity. Yet how many physicists, while arguing for the truth of Einsteinian physics, will claim that general relativity is as well established as Darwin's theory? Zero.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Quick, cheap, or good, pick two.

He has all the time in the world, he can pick and choose, all the time you have is the moment of his arrival.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Nature breeds a vast oversupply of experiments and then sterilizes the failures by murdering them.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

defines domestication as "the human creation of a new form of plant or animal—one that is identifiably different from its wild ancestors and extant wild relatives.

The most general way of stating the central assertion of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution is that a population of replicators subject to variation (for instance by imperfect copying) will be taken over by those variants that are better than their rivals at causing themselves to be replicated. This

a population of replicators subject to variation (for instance by imperfect copying) will be taken over by those variants that are better than their rivals at causing themselves to be replicated.

Given the difficulties in timing markets and the challenges of security selection, such behavior provides a rational foundation for investment management. By avoiding extreme allocation shifts and holding diversified portfolios, investors cause asset allocation to account for the largest share of portfolio returns.

Según él, de lo que se trataba no era de que nos guste leer o nos deje de gustar, sino más bien de saber cómo hallar el libro que nos corresponde. A todo el mundo le puede encantar leer si se cumple la condición de tener en las manos la novela adecuada, la que nos va a gustar, la que nos va a decir algo y que no podremos soltar.

On ne sait jamais que manger ; faire un choix, c'es anéantir tous les autres.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

Why would the genealogy highlight only four women and then make such unusual choices? Why not choose Hannah or Sarah or Rachel or Rebecca?

Beauty is in the adaptations of the beholder. —DONALD SYMONS, "What Do Men Want?

You didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.