We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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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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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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