Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
CHARLES DARWINNothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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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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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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