Economics Quote by Charles Darwin

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

— Charles Darwin

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

— 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

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

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

— Johannes Brahms

Originality is only variation.

— Holbrook Jackson

... 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

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

— Harold Jeffreys

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

— Herta Muller

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking,…

— Pablo Picasso

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

— Kenzo Tange

“All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly the same relations to surrounding conditions as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley