I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINHow paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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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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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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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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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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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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