All Charles Darwin Quotes
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Life
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin
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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.
Charles Darwin
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin
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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Charles Darwin
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Charles Darwin
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin
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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.
Charles Darwin
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin
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