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.
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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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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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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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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