Fittest Quotes

84 quotes by 68 authors

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest)… — Francis Maitland Balfour
It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of… — George Reisman
The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those… — Herbert Spencer
The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the… — B. C. Forbes
It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air… — Jack LaLanne
I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life… — Jack LaLanne
The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a… — L. Harrison Matthews
I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression… — Louis Comfort Tiffany
It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly… — George H. Smith
The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who… — Elihu Root
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor. — Henry Ward Beecher
Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest. — Robin Sharma
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. — Jeremy Collier
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. — George Bernard Shaw
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the… — Swami Vivekananda
The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle… — Suzy Kassem
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. — Benjamin Franklin
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began… — Nikola Tesla

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