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.
CHARLES DARWINWe are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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