Only the fittest will survive.
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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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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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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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