Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWINOne general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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