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• It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Men, Doubt

  "Darwin's complex loss of faith" by Nick Spencer, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

  Charles Darwin

  Clever, Men, Huxley

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.443, Broadview Press

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• That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Pain, Powerful, Views

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• ...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

  Charles Darwin

  Victory, Important, May

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species: the Evolution”, p.55, VM eBooks

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• Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Men, Long

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.433, Broadview Press

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• Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Variation, Owing

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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• The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

  Charles Darwin

  Vegetarianism, World, Vegan

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• ... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

  Charles Darwin

  Origin Of Species, Species, Transmit

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species: the Evolution”, p.298, VM eBooks

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• It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Origin Of Life, Essence

  Charles Darwin (2003). “The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.452, Penguin

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• We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Nature, Memories

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.176, Diversion Books

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• One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

  Charles Darwin

  Law, Advancement, Origin Of Species

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Survival, Natural

  Charles Darwin (2007). “The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition”, p.130, Penguin

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• I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

  Charles Darwin

  Morality, Ought, Whole

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• The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Garden

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheism, Done, Dogma

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.147

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• What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Fame

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Science, Journey

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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• We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

  Charles Darwin

  Stars, Self, Heaven

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Simple, Views

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• Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

  Charles Darwin

  Tattoo, Country, Regions

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7537, Delphi Classics

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• Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

  Charles Darwin

  Attention, Astonishment, Graduates

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.278

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• [T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Race

  Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin, Paul H. Barrett, R. B. Freeman (1990). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.275, NYU Press

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• At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

  Charles Darwin

  Long, Done, Pondering

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Quality, Noble

  Charles Darwin (1875). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.165

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• I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Ideas, People

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