Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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