It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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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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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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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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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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 loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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