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Natural Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the…
- I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me…
- 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…
- I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is…
- Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly…
- I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not…
- It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,…
- I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
- Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection
- In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend…
- [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No…
- I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is…
- The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
- To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
- I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
- 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…
- I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,…
- I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what…
- As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so…
- 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…
- 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…
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