We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWINAnimals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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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 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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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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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