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 DARWINWherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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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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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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