Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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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.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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