Selection Quotes - Page 12

• I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that evolution, including the principle of natural selection, is one of the tools used by God to create mankind. Mankind is then a participant in the creation of the universe itself, so that we have a closed loop. I believe that there is a level on which science and religious metaphor are mutually compatible.

  Christopher Langan

  God, Religious, Believe

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• I’ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

  Lamar Johnson

  Guy, Want, Taught

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• We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Jobs, Thinking

  "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• ...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

  Brain, Too Much Power, Adaptation

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!

  Herbert Spencer

  People, Survival, World

  "The Man versus the State: Great Essays".

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• One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Horse, Eugenics, Humanity

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• This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Cancer, Cutting, Cells

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• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

  Thomas Nagel

  Together, Natural, Results

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

  Thomas Nagel

  Together, Example, Alternatives

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• 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

  Art, Exercise, Imagination

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.32, Random House

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• I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.

  Jason Kenney

  Believe, Space, Democracy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Emotional, People, Manipulation

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In the 17th century, Descartes applied this insight to cosmology, and long before Darwin presented his more rigorous ideas about variation and selection, people began to speculate more openly about the origins of life and the species in Epicurean terms.

  Catherine Wilson

  Origin Of Life, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Real, Organization, Leader

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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• In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.

  Ernest Sosa

  Archer, Assessment, Choices

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jobs, White, Black

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They're sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!

  Adrienne Bailon

  Christian, Thinking, Sick

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• It is an interesting fact about model selection that the evidence at hand can indicate that a model known to be false will be more predictively accurate than a model known to be true. This opens the door to a kind of instrumentalism.

  Elliott Sober

  Doors, Hands, Interesting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once claimed it to be. The theory is not just conceptually coherent; there are adaptations out there in nature (like reduced virulence in some viruses) that evolved because there was group selection.

  Elliott Sober

  Stupid, Groups, Viruses

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• Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

  Edward Albee

  Acceptance, Rejection, Matter

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Group selection and individual selection are just two of the selection processes that have played important roles in evolution. There also is selection within individual organisms (intragenomic conflict), and selection among multi-species communities (an idea that now is getting attention in work on the human microbiome). All four of these levels of selection find a place in multi-level selection theory.

  Elliott Sober

  Ideas, Two, Community

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But the full aptness of such an attempt is entirely compatible with its being a horrible murder, if the "hunter" is an assassin and the prey his victim. That hunter's shot may still be outstandingly, fully apt, if it manifests the agent's competence in both archery dexterity and shot selection.

  Ernest Sosa

  Archery, Assassins, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

  Elliott Sober

  Groups, Evolution, Influence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

  Francis Collins

  Intelligent, Design, Natural

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• I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Believe, Next Day, One Day

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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