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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

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Change Inspirational Intelligence Species Strong Survival
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWIN

Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution God
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Existence Life Relationship
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWIN

Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Constitution Moral
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
CHARLES DARWIN

Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm
I am not the least afraid to die.
CHARLES DARWIN

Afraid Beast Die One Liner
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Language Species
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWIN

Desert Life Love Trial

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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