I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
CHARLES DARWINAn agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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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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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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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