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 DARWINMy mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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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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