I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINMan, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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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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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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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.
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