It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, - that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, - that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eye-witnesses; - by such reflections as these... I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Only the fittest will survive.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.
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