The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWINEven 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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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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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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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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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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