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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin

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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Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Animal Consideration Equality
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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Body Die Inch Insect Talk
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
I am not the least afraid to die.
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Afraid Beast Die One Liner
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Attribution Creature Live Love Man
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Goodness Man Nature Selection
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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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
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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Cause Greatness Insitution Misery Nature Poor Poverty Sin
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.
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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Prove Record Species

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

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