Acting Quote by Charles Darwin

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

— Charles Darwin

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection",…

— Herbert Spencer

“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.”

— Charles Darwin

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence,…

— Charles Darwin

“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species…

— Karl Pearson

“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present…

— Henry Gee

“We need to perceive ourselves as the special race. If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen.”

— Toba Beta

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the…

— Charles Darwin

“We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.”

— Maureen Dowd

The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must…

— Jerry Fodor

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful…

— Charles Darwin

“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained…

— James Lovelock