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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.

Charles Darwin

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWIN

Goodness Man Nature Selection
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
CHARLES DARWIN

Imagination Increase Interest Knowledge Limitation Man Neighbor Perhaps Possess Subject
We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWIN

One Liner Optimism
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWIN

Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
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
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
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWIN

Essence Follow Independence Instinct Reason
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN

Affection Heart Man Science Stone
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feeling Hopeless Ignorance Immensity Man Thinking

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