Quotes About Selection

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

The necessity of creation is the sovereign power of choice

The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

One more thing about evolution. They keep saying that it's chance, all chance, and that it's simple. Billions of fish kept

When people are given three prices (think of those for small, medium, and large coffee), and they have no strong preference, they tend to pick the "middle" price. Morgan

We choose between descriptions of options, rather than between the options themselves.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

God hath sifted a nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness.

Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!"

A no stone left unturned approach will find the very best people.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

The Sunday edition of the Detroit News on September 15 ran a special section about "Olympic City," making the case for how and why Detroit would be selected. The next day Cavanagh was at the White House where, at four in the afternoon, President Kennedy signed Joint Resolution 72, expressing Congress's full support for Detroit.

We can never select the one result we want to the exclusion of all others.

The result will be gradual transmutation of heritable forms, and adaptation to circumstances, by a process of selective culling. Eventually he gave the crank a name: natural selection. Twenty years passed after the E notebook entry. The world heard nothing about natural selection.

Among the most important things to remember about evolution—and about its primary mechanism, natural selection, as limned by Darwin and his successors—is that it doesn't have purposes. It only has results. To

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

Oh it's just my breakfast, Lisa. A couple of bags of Maltesers, a Toblerone, a Bounty, Jelly Tots, some Skips, seven bags of Monster Munch, Raj was doing a special offer on those, a box of Creme Eggs, and a can of Diet Coke.