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Charles Darwin Quote - Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

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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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Prove Record Species
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWIN

Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWIN

Goodness Man Nature Selection
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Death Original Pursue
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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Change Strong World
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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 have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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