It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWINThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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