Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
CHARLES DARWINIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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.
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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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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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