The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.
Only the fittest will survive.
I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets.
Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.
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.
How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest. ' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.
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.
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.
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.
Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.
The fittest of the fittest shall survive !
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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.