Herbert Spencer Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

  Herbert Spencer

  Law, Giving, Survival

  "Mr. Martineau on Evolution" (1872) See Darwin 7; Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5

• If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Men, Cells

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.350

• Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

  Herbert Spencer

  Giving Up, Religion, Dogma

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.109

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