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It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
— Charles Darwin
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
— Jacques Monod
The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.
— Julian Barnes
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
— Ronald A. Fisher
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
— Tracy Letts
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
— Charles Darwin
boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals - something
— Neal Stephenson
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
— Charles Darwin
I always wondered if they'd change you.
— Kiera Cass
Welcome to the first ever Selection Variety Show, starring a bunch of losers competing for your attention.
— Kiera Cass
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
— Richard Dawkins
It's hard to get a hug wrong.
— Kiera Cass
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
— Richard Dawkins
I'd rather have my last memory be of his death than suffer knowing that his last memory was of mine.
— Kiera Cass
She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside
— John Connolly
... Bond selection is primarily a negative art. It is a process of exclusion and rejection, rather than of search and acceptance.
— Benjamin Graham
The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?
— Anna Freud
We've got to stop being afraid of the change.
— Kiera Cass
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.
— Irving Babbitt
Everything begins with chioce.
— S.J. Wardell
But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.
— Sophie Kinsella
If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
— Zane Stumpo
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[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
— Edward O. Wilson
Homosexuality is nature's way of keeping the population in check.
— Abhijit Naskar
Natural selection is anything but random.
— Richard Dawkins
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement
— Stephen Jay Gould
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
— Gerald Edelman
In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.
— Richard Dawkins
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
— Richard Dawkins
Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.
— Peter Drucker
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
— Charles Darwin
Natural selection awards no prize for second place.
— Thomas Lewis
My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.
— Stacy Keach
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
— Theodore Levitt
I'd decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start dressing like a queen.
— Kiera Cass
We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.
— Lamar Johnson
I think it's our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea.
— Joseph Roth
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
— George William Norris
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
— Robert Crippen
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
— Richard Dawkins
This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.
— Charles Darwin
I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection.
— Jon Stewart
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
— Charles Darwin
Experience and experiment are crucially important here - neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection. The
— Oliver Sacks
Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
— Alain De Botton
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.
— Jared Diamond
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
— Thurgood Marshall
Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name
— Claude C. Hopkins
When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
— Laura Mennell
America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning.
— Kiera Cass
Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience.
— Gregory Maguire
Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.
— Robert Wright
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
— Barbara Tuchman
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.
— John Tyler Bonner
The whole purpose of our search for a 'unit of selection' is to discover a suitable actor to play the leading role in our metaphors of purpose.
— Richard Dawkins
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else.
— Kiera Cass
If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Natural selection is not evolution.
— Ronald Fisher
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
— Winifred Holtby
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