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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Cause Greatness Insitution Misery Nature Poor Poverty Sin
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
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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Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Change Prove Record Species
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Desert Life Love Trial
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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Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
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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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
I am not the least afraid to die.
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Afraid Beast Die One Liner
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Children Future Present Surround
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Face Glad Hold Nature Bright One Liner
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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Animal Collaboration History Human
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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Appearance Country Distant Improvement Journey Nature Science
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth

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