I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINThe love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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