If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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