"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."
— Charles Darwin
It Is Not The Strongest Of
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.
About this quote
This is a misquotation — Charles Darwin never wrote or said these words. The statement originated with Louisiana State University business professor Leon C. Megginson, who paraphrased Darwin's ideas in a 1963 speech and a 1964 article in Petroleum Management. Over subsequent decades, Megginson's paraphrase was gradually shortened and reassigned directly to Darwin, a process researcher Nick Matzke called "pithification." Darwin's actual argument in On the Origin of Species was about reproductive success in specific environments, not abstract adaptability.
Source
Attributed, paraphrase of Darwin's ideas (often cited, possibly from Leon C. Megginson's interpretation)
