One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWINMan 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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