In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWINI would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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