Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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