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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Charles Darwin

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Length Man Noble Quality
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWIN

Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absorb Evil Man Myself Subject
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
CHARLES DARWIN

Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWIN

Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWIN

Friendship Man Measure Worth
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attribution Creature Live Love Man
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Language Species
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Prove Record Species
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Life Listen Music Poetry Rule Week
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
CHARLES DARWIN

Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room

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