Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINIt is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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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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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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