For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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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Only the fittest will survive.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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