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Charles Darwin Quote - Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Chance Freedom Matter Mind One Liner
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
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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Adapt Change Inspirational Intelligence Species Strong Survival
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Fact False High Injurious Progress Science
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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Change Strong World
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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Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
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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Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
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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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
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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Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
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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Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking

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