I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINFreedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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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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The willing horse is always overworked.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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