One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWINMan 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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