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Best One Quotes by Charles Darwin
- I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even…
- [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…
- People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write…
- A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
- A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of…
- How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
- False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little…
- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
- One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and…
- But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower…
- 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…
- If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
- It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one…
- There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great…
- Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of…
- ...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one…
- What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
- A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
- It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable…
- One hand has surely worked throughout the universe
- It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change.
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