Survival of the fittest Quote by William Bryant Logan

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

— Dan Brown

When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't…

— Joel A. Barker

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

— Herbert Spencer

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

“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

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

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their…

— Charles Darwin

“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

“It is not the strongest animal that survives, nor the fastest, but the one most adaptable to change. —Leon C. Megginson, paraphrasing Charles Darwin”

— Ben Falk

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

— Steve Merrick