Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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 willing horse is always overworked.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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 agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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