If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
CHARLES DARWINAnimals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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