Group Selection Quotes

#1. To give in completely to the instinctual urgings born from individual selection would be to dissolve society. At the opposite extreme, to surrender to the urgings from group selection would turn us into angelic robots - the outsized equivalents of ants.

Edward O. Wilson

#2. Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

E. O. Wilson

#3. Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

E. O. Wilson

#4. Johnny-boy shook his head. Maybe he thought I wanted him to drink from the bottle. Hell, I have more class than that. There are paper cups over by the water cooler.

Dan Simmons

#5. A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Dawn Powell

#6. We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.

Rupert Murdoch

#7. Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

Mark Pagel

#8. Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

Eugene O'Neill

#9. The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction - the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate, bond, cooperate, compete, and from all these the deep warm pleasure of belonging to your own special group.

Edward O. Wilson

#10. couldn't bring himself to do it. Some secrets really should stay

Alisa Woods

#11. Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation and competition between specialized populations within a group.

Billy Roper

#12. If there's one thing a goblin hates more than being poor, it's being dead.

Jamie Sedgwick

#13. Unmet promises are rarely empty; rather, they're filled with the unspoken things people don't want to do or can't do.

Steve Toutonghi

#14. I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

Pat Nixon

#15. At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.

Robert Downey Jr.

#16. I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.

Robert Kiyosaki

#17. Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.

Cindy Crawford

#18. My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT , and I wonder about Apple.

Steve Jobs

#19. You don't get to have an opinion on whether .999 ... is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they've figured out.

John Green

#20. People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

Joshua Michael Stern

#21. If the hive switch is real - if it's a group-level adaptation designed by group-level selection for group binding - then it must be made out of neurons, neurotransmitters, and hormones.

Jonathan Haidt

#22. It's this that is inside me. I feel its need to rip, to tear, and to shred with teeth and claw.

Darrick Mackey