Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWINNot one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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 love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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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.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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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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