What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWINThere is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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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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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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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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To 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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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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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