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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.

Charles Darwin

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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Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
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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Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Children Future Present Surround
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
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
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
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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Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agnostic Correction Description Mind State
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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Change Prove Record Species
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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Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
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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Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
I am not the least afraid to die.
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Afraid Beast Die One Liner

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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