We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWINThe most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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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 always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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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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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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