I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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