Natural selection Quote by Maureen Dowd

“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

“I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however,…

— Charles Darwin

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had…

— Charles Darwin

“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.”

— Richard Dawkins

“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”

— Charles Darwin

“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the…

— Karl Popper

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history…

— Herbert Spencer

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

— Dan Brown