I am not the least afraid to die.
CHARLES DARWINSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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 very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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