Biology Quote by Ron Sanders

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Dan Brown

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 Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.”

— Maureen Dowd

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you…

— Steven Pinker

“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin ,…

— Herbert Spencer

“Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,”

— Steve Merrick

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

“Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.”

— Steve Jones

“Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate…

— James L. Stokesbury

“Evolution is antifragile! While individuals in the population are fragile, the population as a whole is antifragile.”

— Rich Jolly

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

“For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.”

— John Fowles