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Man selects only for his own g...

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

The main conclusion here arriv...

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

He who is not content to look,...

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

After my return to England it ...

After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.

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I feel like an old warhorse at...

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

It is not the strongest of the...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.

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We are optimists, until we are...

We are optimists, until we are not.

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Delight itself, however, is a ...

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

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Much love much trial, but what...

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

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I cannot persuade myself that ...

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

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If a person asked my advice, b...

If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils.

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... not one living species wil...

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

Whenever I have found that I h...

Whenever I have found that I have blundered, or that my work has been imperfected, and when I have been contemptuously criticised, and even when I have been overpraised, so that I have felt mortified, it has been my greatest comfort to say hundreds of times to myself that 'I have worked as hard as I could, and no man can do more than this.'

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

It is a fatal fault to reason ...

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

We cannot fathom the marvelous...

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

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If I had not been so great an ...

If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.

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It may be doubted that there a...

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

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Freedom of thought is best pro...

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

Charles Darwin 416 quotes

A surprising number [of novels...

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

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Nature will tell you a direct ...

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

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