Fittest Quotes
84 quotes by 73 authors
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And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever…
— Benjamin Carson
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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will…
— Richard Sibbes
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the…
— Andrew Carnegie
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In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time…
— George Washington Carver
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival…
— Peter Birks
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The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
— Grove Karl Gilbert
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The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
— William Shakespeare
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Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses…
— Pope Francis
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We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
— Thabo Mbeki
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it…
— William Graham Sumner
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I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the…
— Dave Smalley
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The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available…
— William Wilson
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This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or…
— Herbert Spencer
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He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
— George Washington Carver
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
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I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not…
— Charles Darwin
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