Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWINThe willing horse is always overworked.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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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.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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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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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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