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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
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.
— Steven Pinker
The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.
— Idries Shah
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
— Charles Darwin
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
— E. O. Wilson
The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.
— Julian Barnes
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
It's hard to get a hug wrong.
— Kiera Cass
I'd rather have my last memory be of his death than suffer knowing that his last memory was of mine.
— Kiera Cass
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
We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.
— Maureen Dowd
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
— Richard Dawkins
And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try.
— Kiera Cass
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
— Richard Dawkins
Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.
— Peter Drucker
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
— Richard Dawkins
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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
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
— Gerald Edelman
And it's old advice, but it's good: be yourself.-Queen Amberly, The Selection/The Prince — Kiera Cass
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
— David Quammen
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
— Charles Lindbergh
A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance
— Richard Dawkins
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.
— Richard Leakey
Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
— Kiera Cass
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
— John C. Bogle
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
— David Rockefeller
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
— Charles Darwin
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
— Daniel Dennett
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
— Guy Kawasaki
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
— Richard Dawkins
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
— Finley Peter Dunne
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
— Kenneth Burke
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.
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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[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
— Thurgood Marshall
One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
— Jeff Bezos
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 think it's our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea.
— Joseph Roth
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
Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
— George William Norris
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 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
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
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
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
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
— Theodore Levitt
The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.
— Charles Darwin
Homosexuality is nature's way of keeping the population in check.
— Abhijit Naskar
In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.
— Richard Dawkins
I'd decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start dressing like a queen.
— 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
