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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Charles Darwin

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
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
CHARLES DARWIN

Appearance Country Distant Improvement Journey Nature Science
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Alone Existence Life Relationship
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Goodness Man Nature Selection
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact False High Injurious Progress Science
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
CHARLES DARWIN

Age Give Up Religion
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
CHARLES DARWIN

Important Shield Sword Victory
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Length Man Noble Quality
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
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail

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