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 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.
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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.
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?
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