Charles Darwin Quotes
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~ Charles Darwin Quote
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
~ Charles Darwin Quote
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth
~ Charles Darwin Quote
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
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I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selections, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection.
~ Charles Darwin Quote
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
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I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
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