An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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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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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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