fittest quotes

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest mayalso be the gentlest.

-Theodosius G Dobzhansky
  Mankind Evolving.

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

- Grace ne  e  Goodside Paley
  In D L Fitzpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

The growth of a large business is merelya survival of the fittest† The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. 692

-John D(avison) Rockefeller
Quoted inW J Ghent Our Benevolent Feudalism (1902).

It cannot but happen†that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces† This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

- Herbert Spencer
  Principles of Biology, pt.3, ch.12, sect.164.