Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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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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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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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 world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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 have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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