How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWINIt is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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