We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWINAt no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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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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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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