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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Charles Darwin

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWIN

Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
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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Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Constitution Moral
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Greatness One Liner Power Steady
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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Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Affection Heart Man Science Stone
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Attribution Creature Live Love Man
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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Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
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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Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
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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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
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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Attack Fame Love Truth
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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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
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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Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Goodness Man Nature Selection
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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Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
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.
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Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Blind Follow Inspirational Lead Men
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
CHARLES DARWIN

Life Listen Music Poetry Rule Week
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Appearance Language Species
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
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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Book Cruel Nature Work Writing

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