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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Charles Darwin

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWIN

One Liner Optimism
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWIN

Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
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
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
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
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 is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advise Clear Ignorance Perceive
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWIN

Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
The normal food of man is vegetable.
CHARLES DARWIN

Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Country Distant Improvement Journey Nature Science

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

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