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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

Charles Darwin

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWIN

Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
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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Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Blush Expression Human
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
I am not the least afraid to die.
CHARLES DARWIN

Afraid Beast Die One Liner
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
CHARLES DARWIN

Age Give Up Religion
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feet Man
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWIN

Friendship Man Measure Worth
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absorb Evil Man Myself Subject
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
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWIN

Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

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