What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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 limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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.
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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 am not the least afraid to die.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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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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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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