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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Charles Darwin

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
CHARLES DARWIN

Face Glad Hold Nature Bright One Liner
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
CHARLES DARWIN

Important Shield Sword Victory
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWIN

Essence Follow Independence Instinct Reason
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWIN

Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Consideration Equality
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWIN

Body Die Inch Insect Talk
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Existence Life Relationship

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