Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWINIt is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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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.
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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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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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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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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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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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