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.
CHARLES DARWINIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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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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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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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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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.
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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