To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINIt is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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 every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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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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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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