My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINBuilding a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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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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 moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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