I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
CHARLES DARWINI have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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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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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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