Quote by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experime

Summary

This quote suggests that a species evolves and sustains itself through the accumulation of successful individual experiences over time. It highlights the idea that every individual within a species carries the evolutionary advancements and adaptations that were successful in their predecessors, helping the species as a whole to survive and perpetuate. This accumulation of successful experiments, such as favorable genetic variations or behavioral traits, has shaped the species from its inception and continues to drive its progress forward.

Topics

Evolution

By H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Computers

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he c

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh

Men

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, the

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Patrick Buchanan

Environmental

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery th

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Washington Irving

Soul

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

Sarah Jessica Parker

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our

One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Women

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad thin

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Faith

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Li

Responsibility

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, deat

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division,

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Jean-Francois Cope