#select

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#discover #environmental #genome #important #interactions

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#ideas #natural #natural selection #ones #selection

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#i #never #nobel #select #surprised

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#beauty #carefully #fullness #having #high

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#challenges #discrimination #eliminating #ending #entirely

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#astronaut #before #fact #get #i

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#brain #dangerous #genome #idea #implications

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #been #come #determination #games