To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
CHARLES DARWINOnly the fittest will survive.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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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.
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