Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
CHARLES DARWINAttention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress 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 world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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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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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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