The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.
Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?. . . it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.
The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life
Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between naïve and potentially disastrous.
