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.
CHARLES DARWINFreedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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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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