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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.

Charles Darwin

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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Adapt Advantage Change Environment Fundamental Identity Lose Powerful Species
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
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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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
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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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
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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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Face Glad Hold Nature Bright One Liner
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Friendship Man Measure Worth
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Goodness Man Nature Selection
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth

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