Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWINThus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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