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• If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Order, Reception

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6454, Delphi Classics

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• A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Self, Law

  Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.417

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• I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Principles, Facts

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.438, Broadview Press

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• Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Curiosity, Suffering

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• Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.

  Charles Darwin

  God, Nature, Science

  Charles Darwin (1879). “What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle".”

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• The man who walks with Henslow.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Men, Biographies

  Charles Darwin, John Stevens Henslow, Nora Barlow (1967). “Darwin and Henslow: The Growth of an Idea; Letters, 1831-1860”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Animal, Men

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of man”, p.14

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• Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

  Charles Darwin

  Two, Different, Way

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

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• Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

  Charles Darwin

  Swimming, Science, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.453, VM eBooks

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• ...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Past, Judging

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1993). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

  Charles Darwin

  Expression, Survival, Sometimes

  On the Origin of Species, 5th ed., ch. 3 (1869) See Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5; Herbert Spencer 6

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• Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Prejudice, Overwhelmed

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.393, Broadview Press

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• The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

  Charles Darwin

  Age, Noble, Cowardice

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• I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Writing, Long

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

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• I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

  Charles Darwin

  Motivational, Science, Theory Of Evolution

  "Got a problem? Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt can help" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.

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• In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

  Charles Darwin

  Simplicity, Gentleman, Evolution

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

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• During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.

  Charles Darwin

  Determination, Book, Science

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

  Charles Darwin

  Done, Should, Accomplished

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• I am not very sceptical, — a frame of mind which I believe to be injurious to the progress of science. A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met with not a few men, who, I feel sure, have often thus been deterred from experiment or observations, which would have proved directly or indirectly serviceable .

  Charles Darwin

  Loss, Science, Men

  "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter".

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• When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely.

  Charles Darwin

  Fashion, Men, Steps

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Illustrations. Tenth Thousand”, p.82

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• I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Eye, Science

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin”, p.55, Cambridge University Press

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• I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Book, Doubt

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

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• A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Justice, Principles

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.156, Delphi Classics

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• I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.

  Charles Darwin

  Supportive, Special, Trying

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