I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
CHARLES DARWINWhat a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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