Darwin's ‘survival of the fittest' is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable. The universe is populated by stable things. (Richard Dawkins)

Darwin's ‘survival of the fittest' is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable. The universe is populated by stable things.

Richard Dawkins

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