Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWINOften a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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