The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWINIn the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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.
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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.
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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 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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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