I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWINI would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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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 exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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 world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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