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• Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Animal, Slave

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Theory Of Evolution

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, February 24, 1871.

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• It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.

  Charles Darwin

  Intellectual, Able, Changing Environment

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• Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

  Charles Darwin

  Simple, Bees, Instinct

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.9939, Delphi Classics

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• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Men, Illumination

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, May, Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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

  Inspirational, Atheist, Insightful

  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.124, NYU Press

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• Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Misrepresentation, Origin Of Species

  1859 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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• Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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• If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Would Be, Mould

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

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• To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

  Charles Darwin

  Distance, Believe, Eye

  "The Collapse of Evolution". Book by Scott Huse, p. 73, 1996.

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• I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

  Charles Darwin

  Funny, Dull, Insult

  1860 The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol.1.

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• Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Expression, Peculiar

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

  Charles Darwin

  Aboriginal, Pursue

  "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World: the Evolution".

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• In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ... I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Thinking, Mind

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

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• It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Space, Facts

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.176, Broadview Press

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• The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.525, OUP Oxford

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• I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

  Charles Darwin

  Years, Age, Christianity

  Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

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• This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Survival, Would Be

  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.92

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• On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Views, Ordinary

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.5428, Delphi Classics

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• Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Humble, Men

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• We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

  Charles Darwin

  Reason, Permit, Concerned

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.548, VM eBooks

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