Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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