Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.
In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
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If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.
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