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Organic Quotes by Charles Darwin
- 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…
- One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of…
- From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in…
- But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly…
- Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and…
- 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…
- Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such fine graduated organic…
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