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Letter "S" » selection
«Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
favors, Human history, murderous, natural history, natural selection, operated, selection, selections
«Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.»
«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»
Author: Konrad Lorenz
(Zoologist)
| About:
Historians
| Keywords:
cultures, Historians, natural selection, selection, selections
«The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Evolution
| Keywords:
complexity, cumulative, evolution, explaining, in principle, natural selection, selection, selections, theory of, theory of evolution
«In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
races, recur, recurring, selection, selections
«I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
natural selection, preserved, selection, selections, slight, The Variations, variation, variations
«The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements»
«People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
influenced, selection, selections, unconscious
«Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
grandparent, grandparents, improper, selection, selections, varicose, veins
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