Quotes about Selection

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

But humans have deliberately selected which plants and animals shall live and which shall die for thousands of years. We are surrounded from babyhood by familiar farm and domestic animals, fruits and trees and vegetables. Where do they come from? Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm? No, the truth is quite different. They are, most of them, made by us.

If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Evolution is a fact, not a theory.

In the jury selection process, the court needs to be reassured that the verdict will be based on evidence.

You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy.

My selection process is based on "three Cs": first character, then competence, and finally chemistry with me and with the rest of the team. Character. Competence. Chemistry.

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.

if you were adopted, your parents chose you. Surprise pregnancies happen. But surprise adoptions? Never heard of one. Your parents could have picked a different gender, color, or ancestry. But they selected you. They wanted you in their family.

never make someone a priority, when all you are is just a option.

I'm not saying everything else is unimportant. I'm just saying that I've learned to see everything else as optional.