A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWINIt 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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 have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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