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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