I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWINWherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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The willing horse is always overworked.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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