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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

Charles Darwin

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beauty Cast Same Science
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
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
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWIN

Ability Animal Deep Difference Fundamental Happiness Man Misery Pain Pressure
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
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
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
Only the fittest will survive.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fitness Gumnastic One Liner Survival
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN

Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
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
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWIN

Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden

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