A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
CHARLES DARWINFor the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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 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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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 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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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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