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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Charles Darwin

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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Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Attribution Creature Live Love Man
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Experiment Fools Love
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
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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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
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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Adapt Change Inspirational Intelligence Species Strong Survival
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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Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
The willing horse is always overworked.
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Horse One Liner Work
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
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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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste
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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Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself

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