Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWINThe world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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Only the fittest will survive.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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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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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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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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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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