Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWINI 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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