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 DARWINMan selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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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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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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