Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWINFor the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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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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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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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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