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#fittest

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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.


Grace Paley


#fittest #good #interest #life #necessary

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.


Charles Darwin


#evolution #survival #survival-of-the-fittest #change

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive.


Toba Beta


#instinct #life #spirit #survival-of-the-fittest #life

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage.


Charles Darwin


#darwinism #eugenics #natural-selection #planned-parenthood #population-control

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?


Robert J. Sawyer


#darwinism #evolution #infidelity #macro-evolution #macroevolution

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.


Jack London


#survival-of-the-fittest #london

Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.


Carrie Ryan


#survival-of-the-fittest #survival

I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.


Janet Rebhan


#eclipse-of-the-moon #eclipse-quote #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.


Andrew Carnegie


#because #best #competition #department #ensures

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.


Jeremy Collier


#days #fittest #knowledge #multitude #teach






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