Fittest Quotes

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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
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
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
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
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
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
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
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
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous. — Grove Karl Gilbert
The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin
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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