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selection

«Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.»
«Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.»
Author: Bergen Evans (Educator, Professor) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: selection, selections
«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»
«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»
«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.»
«I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection»
«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.»
«Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.»