Charles Darwin on action
“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.”
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin The willing horse is always overworked.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin We are optimists, until we are not.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin
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Rand PaulRand Paul When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
Martin LutherMartin Luther Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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