Conflict Quote by Grove Karl Gilbert

“Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.”

— Dan Brown

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.

— Elliott Sober

The best theory is inspired by practice.

— Donald Knuth

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

— Ruth Hubbard

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

— Jean-Martin Charcot

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its…

— Thomas Huxley

“Theory shows a way to a goal, but it is not the goal. Theory offers security, but there are no secure theories. Theories shed…

— D.A. Blankinship

“Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Evolution isn't 'survival of the fittest,' for Christ's sake. In the long run, linearly, it's survival of the most prolific.”

— Ron Sanders

“Theory has all too often been a zoo in which we cage the wild beasts of violence that inhabit our worlds. We then gaze…

— Carolyn Nordstrom

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

— Jonas Salk