#selection

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#any #beautiful #difficulty #like #looking

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#confirmed #control #democratic #effort #electoral

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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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. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#complexity #cumulative #evolution #existence #explaining

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#basis #bird #genetic #inheritance #natural

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#could #more #much #obvious #online

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#ideas #natural #natural selection #ones #selection

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. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#determined #did #evolution #face #fact

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#challenges #discrimination #eliminating #ending #entirely

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#art #arts #commission #committees #daring