I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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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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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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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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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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