Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWINI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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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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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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