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• In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Struggle, Race

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• Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

  Charles Darwin

  Pain, Taken, Writing

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

  Charles Darwin

  Principles, Body, Facts

  Letter to J. Fiske, 8 December (1784)

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• It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Law, Interesting

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.489, Harvard University Press

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• For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

  Charles Darwin

  Opposites, Decision, Facts

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, Sound, Rags

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• As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

  Charles Darwin

  Life, Men, Judging

  The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Religion (p. 277)

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• Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Farewell, Australia

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.499, Graphic Arts Books

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• There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.

  Charles Darwin

  Long, World, Maps

  Charles Darwin, R. D. Keynes (2001). “Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary”, p.445, Cambridge University Press

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• If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.

  Charles Darwin

  Intelligent, Men, Rude

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 28: The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits”, p.43, NYU Press

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• So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Flower, Smell

  "The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom".

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• Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Origin Of Life, Theory Of Evolution

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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• I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Training, Agree

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.75

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• It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

  Charles Darwin

  Friendship, Dog, Men

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species: the Evolution”, p.132, VM eBooks

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• As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

  Charles Darwin

  Smell, Scent, Taste

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.259

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• As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Believe, Broken

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.304, OUP Oxford

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• I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Men, Two

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.727, VM eBooks

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• The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Museums, Imperfection

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.396, Broadview Press

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• Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Men, Survival

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.807, Diversion Books

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• To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both."—Bacon: "Advancement of Learning".

  Charles Darwin

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

  Charles Darwin

  Design, World, Too Much

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• ...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

  Charles Darwin

  Teaching, Humility, Views

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• [Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

  Charles Darwin

  Traveller

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• I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, Math, Two

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• A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.

  Charles Darwin

  Class, Pretty Woman, Doe

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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