To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINFor the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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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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Only the fittest will survive.
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