Quotes with selection

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• Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

  ― Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• 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
  German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  ― B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  ― Barbara Ehrenreich
  American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  ― T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.

  ― Brad Stone
  American journalist (1971 - )
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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 W. Tuchman
  American historian (1912 - 1989)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• overpopulation
• distribution
• unconscious
• imagination
• arrangement
• advantages

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