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Inspirational Quotes by Charles Darwin
- I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.
- It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
- It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed
- 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…
- Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
- Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
- Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection
- It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
- The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
- Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
- We have happy days, remember good dinners.
- If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.
- The normal food of man is vegetable.
- Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
- The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.
- We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
- We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.
- Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined…
- A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
- Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
- I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
- I am not the least afraid to die
- Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
- He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
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