To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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