"A model that unifies all types of selection may open the way to develop a general ‘Mathematical Theory of Selection’ analogous to communication theory... Selection has been studied mainly in genetics, but of course there is much more to selection than just genetical selection... yet, despite the pervading importance of selection in science and life, there has been no abstraction and generalisation from genetical selection to obtain a general selection theory and general selection mathematics"
React to this quote
More by George R. Price
See allResonant Thoughts
"Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of y…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the …"
— Frederick the Great"Life is everything and nothing all at once."
— Billy Corgan"In Maximus all the streams of the Greek patristic tradition flow together in synthesis. At the same time, w…"
— Hans Urs von Balthasar"Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating …"
— Neil Harbisson"Personally I think the only meaning your life will ever have is whatever your involvement means to someone …"
— Aron Ra"The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them."
— Emil Cioran