The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINI am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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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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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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 more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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