One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWINI have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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