Things Darwin Didn't Say
There’s a great line attributed to Darwin:
“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.”
The trouble is, he never said it. Background here.
Original sources are important and fun.
As H L Mencken said, “Misattributed quotes are the most annoying thing about the Internet.”
As I’ve always said, if you want people to believe anything, tell them I said it first.
A people who will trade proper citation for expeditious pithiness deserve neither pith nor citation.