“...if you read Darwin you find that the survival of the fittest...”
If YOU read Darwin you will not find the phrase “survival of the fittest”. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s always best to remain silent.
Yes you will. Darwin fully approved of the phrase.
“If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s always best to remain silent.”
Like with evolution? What you know of evolution you got from a jar of old bones with a little eye of newt thrown in for good measure. Witchdoctors playing the professorial role.
“If YOU read Darwin you will not find the phrase “survival of the fittest”. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s always best to remain silent.”
I didn’t have time for this earlier, so here you go...
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man’s power of selection. But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. “
— Charles Darwin
from Origin of Species (1859, 1888), 49.
If you call on me to be silent upon not knowing, then what would you call upon yourself to do?