My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINHow paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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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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