“Non è la più forte delle specie che sopravvive, né la più intelligente, ma quella più reattiva ai cambiamenti.”
Originale
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.
The earliest known appearance of this basic statement is a paraphrase of Darwin in the writings of Leon C. Megginson, a management sociologist at Louisiana State University. [[Megginson, Leon C., Lessons from Europe for American Business, Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 1963, 44(1), 3-13, p. 4]] Megginson's paraphrase (with slight variations) was later turned into a quotation. See the summary of Nicholas Matzke's findings in "One thing Darwin didn't say: the source for a misquotation" http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/one-thing-darwin-didnt-say at the Darwin Correspondence Project. The statement is incorrectly attributed, without any source, to Clarence Darrow in Improving the Quality of Life for the Black Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities : Hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, September 25, 1987 (1988).
Misattributed
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naturalista britannico che formulò la teoria dell'evoluzione 1809–1882Citazioni simili

da Opere, a cura di Nicoletta Polo, Mondadori, 2004<sup>5</sup>
“L'insulto non è sopportato né dall'uomo forte né da quello libero!”
Contumeliam nec fortis pote nec ingenuus pati.
Sententiae

Origine: La Signora Craddock, p. 61
Origine: Da The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants; citato in Gordon Rattray Taylor, La società suicida, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1971.