It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWINI have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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