I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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