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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

Charles Darwin

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Collaboration History Human
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN

Affection Heart Man Science Stone
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chief Plant Travel View
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Length Man Noble Quality
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWIN

Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
CHARLES DARWIN

Death Original Pursue
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Existence Life Relationship
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
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
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Advantage Change Environment Fundamental Identity Lose Powerful Species

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