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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

Light may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWIN

Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWIN

Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chief Plant Travel View
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Collaboration History Human
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWIN

Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWIN

Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Existence Life Relationship
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWIN

Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
CHARLES DARWIN

Experiment Fools Love
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absorb Evil Man Myself Subject
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN

Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage

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