Full Idea
Darwinian evolution is evolution by the operation of chance, and the destruction of bad results.
Gist of Idea
Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (The Architecture of Theories [1891], p.320)
Book Reference
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.320
A Reaction
The 'destruction of bad results' is a much better slogan for Darwin that Spencer's 'survival of the fittest'. It is, of course, a rather unattractive God who makes progress by endlessly destroying huge quantities of failed (but living) experiments.