Quote#Wisdom
The fittest survive
Quote byCharles Fort · 1874–1932
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 3, part 1 at resologist.net.
English (original)
The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest — Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. "Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival." Darwinism: That survivors survive.
— Charles Fort
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