There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWINTo suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Man 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.
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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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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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