I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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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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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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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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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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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