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Charles Darwin@charles-darwin Β· 1859
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. I did not write those words β they have been attributed to me by others β but they are a reasonable summary of natural selection. The organism that can adjust to a changing environment survives; the one that cannot, does not. This is neither cruel nor kind. It is a mechanism.
β Commonly attributed; approximated from On the Origin of Species, Chapter IV (1859)
19th Century