Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWINA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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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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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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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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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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