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• Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

  Charles Darwin

  Understood, Known

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• I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Fighting, Ideas

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.209, VM eBooks

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• Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Home, Science, Blow

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• I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe that this view is in the main correct, because so many phenomena can thus be grouped end explained.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Views, People

  Charles Darwin (1960). “Notebooks on Transmutation of Species”

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• So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.26, 谷月社

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• Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

  Charles Darwin

  Women, Believe, Character

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume II, chapter XIX: "Secondary Sexual Characters of Man", pages 316-317, 1871.

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• If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

  Charles Darwin

  Theory Of Evolution, Creation Science, Evolution Of Man

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.213, Broadview Press

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• Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

  Charles Darwin

  Ignorance, Law, Profound

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3445, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Origin Of Species, Good Nature

  Charles Darwin, Duncan M. Porter, Frederick Burkhardt (2004). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Light, Example

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Law, Brain

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.199, Diversion Books

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• Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.

  Charles Darwin

  Teaching, Mean, School

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.25, VM eBooks

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• Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Ocean, Space

  Charles Darwin (2006). “Voyage of the Beagle”, p.548, National Geographic Books

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• People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

  Charles Darwin

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Book, Years

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.159, NYU Press

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• You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Butterfly, Years

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.621, VM eBooks

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• It is like confessing to a murder.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheism, Murder, Positive Atheism

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• Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Men, Animal

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.68

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• The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Acting, Selfishness

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• Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

  Charles Darwin

  Math, Seems, Mathematics

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• We have happy days, remember good dinners.

  Charles Darwin

  Dinner, Happy Day, Remember

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• The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, School, Mean

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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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

  Science, Law, Theory Of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

  Charles Darwin

  Origin Of Species, Natural Selection, Strongest

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.247, Broadview Press

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• As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Special, Doe

  Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.144

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