Quotes About Selection

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

in art, we do not run to keep up with random moments, we select & create the moment occurring forever:

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. [in review of a book]

Can I offer a choice about how something is done? ("Do you want to take your bath with your doll or your boat?")

How could that be what America chose?

The most difficult part of positioning is selecting that one specific concept to hang your hat on. Yet you must, if you want to cut through the prospect's wall of indifference.

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find the same process of simplification or selection at work as in the imagination.

Die größte Freude ist die, aus verschiedenen Sprachen auswählen zu können, was den Inhalt des Geistes am besten ausdrückt.

Animals take decisions all the time. Only humans have the option not to take decisions.

In effect, we have a cafeteria-style curriculum in which the appetizers and desserts can easily be mistaken for the main courses' ... This "curricular smorgasbord," combined with extensive student choice, led to a situation in which only small proportions of high school students completed standard, intermediate, and advanced courses.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.