It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
CHARLES DARWINTo kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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