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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Darwin

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWIN

Build Result Smart
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Language Species
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWIN

Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Length Man Noble Quality
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
CHARLES DARWIN

Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWIN

Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beget Confidence Frequent Ignorance Knowledge
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWIN

Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Life Listen Music Poetry Rule Week
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Advantage Change Environment Fundamental Identity Lose Powerful Species
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
CHARLES DARWIN

Face Glad Hold Nature Bright One Liner
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN

Affection Heart Man Science Stone
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
CHARLES DARWIN

Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Dare Discover Inspirational Life Man Time Value Wasted Time
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
CHARLES DARWIN

Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Constitution Moral

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