All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.
Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.
Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
Only the fittest will survive.
The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.
What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.
If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest. ' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest. ' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
