Destroyed Quote by Charles Darwin

It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed

— Charles Darwin

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

— Dan Simmons

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

— Charles Darwin

Originality is only variation.

— Holbrook Jackson

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

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

— Herta Muller

... 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

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

— Johannes Brahms

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

— Oscar Wilde

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

— Ted Sizer

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

— Coco Chanel