Quotes About Selection

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

The competition between the two forces can be succinctly expressed as follows: Within groups selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. Or, risking oversimplification, individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue.

Nevertheless, an iron rule exists in genetic social evolution. It is that selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, while groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. The victory can never be complete; the balance of selection pressures cannot move to either extreme. If individual selection were to dominate, societies would dissolve. If group selection were to dominate, human groups would come to resemble ant colonies.

To give in completely to the instinctual urgings born from individual selection would be to dissolve society. At the opposite extreme, to surrender to the urgings from group selection would turn us into angelic robots—the outsized equivalents of ants.

Natural selection, the driving force of biological evolution in both individual and group selection, is captured in a single phrase: mutation proposes, the environment disposes.

We are a biological species arising from Earth's biosphere as one adapted species among many; and however splendid our languages and cultures, however rich and subtle our minds, however vast our creative powers, the mental process is the product of a brain shaped by the hammer of natural selection upon the anvil of nature.

Much of culture, including especially the content of the creative arts, has arisen from the inevitable clash of individual selection and group selection.

individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue.

Within groups selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. Or, risking oversimplification, individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue.

these species have evolved only rarely in evolution.

A selected-one, in whatever way, shape, and form, cannot reach and achieve that precisely elected-one can succeed and secure.

Factually, the selection should carry the quality of skill and a standard of talent since the election never can qualify such a degree and level as that, to run the system of law and establishment.

Only two dictatorships in whatever form and system rule around the world; one of the voters' selection and choice as a majority, another by the consensus of a few ones who dress in uniform, carrying weapons. The public stays the self-victimizing of both powers.

The list of verbs associated with the six levels in Table 4-1 helps you to select a verb that fits the level of learning.

If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time.

There are no have-to's, just choices

Everyone thinks alchemy is dead, but alchemists live among us—they are called editors: adept in the art of transformation, they practice arcane methods of selection, deletion and synthesis to take what is base and produce gold.

electrical and water supplies, for example, had to be manufactured, transported to the right places and fitted. The artillery pieces, radar equipment, communications equipment and observation equipment all had to be ordered, transported and installed. But what was built and where and the order in which the sites were selected for the construction work was not

An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.