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.
CHARLES DARWINNot one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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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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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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