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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Charles Darwin

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWIN

Goodness Man Nature Selection
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWIN

Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWIN

Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWIN

Body Die Inch Insect Talk
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWIN

Greatness One Liner Power Steady
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWIN

Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feet Man
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Follow Inspirational Lead Men
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure

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