I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWINI am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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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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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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