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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 [link to http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/six-things-darwin-never-said no longer works]. Background here.

Original sources are important and fun.

3 comments on "Things Darwin Didn't Say"

  • PorkBellyFutures says:

    As H L Mencken said, “Misattributed quotes are the most annoying thing about the Internet.”

  • Ben Franklin says:

    As I’ve always said, if you want people to believe anything, tell them I said it first.

  • Thomas Jefferson says:

    A people who will trade proper citation for expeditious pithiness deserve neither pith nor citation.

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