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.
CHARLES DARWINMan is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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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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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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