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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 to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.

Charles Darwin

Mean, Intelligent, Survival

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The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

Charles Darwin

Survival, Important, Adaptability

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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Charles Darwin

World, Able, Progressive

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Charles Darwin

Love, Life, Nature

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Charles Darwin

Form, Relation

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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Charles Darwin

Building, Results, Mice

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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Charles Darwin

Leadership, Teaching, Learning

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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

Charles Darwin

Evolution

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Ignorance, Men, Thinking

Charles Darwin (1903). “More Letters of Charles Darwin (Complete)”, p.520, Library of Alexandria

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The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for  the existence of God.

Charles Darwin

Self, Religion, Atheism

Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Confidence, Atheist

Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Charles Darwin

Strongest, Adaptable

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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

Charles Darwin

Intelligent, Men, Feelings

Charles Darwin (1887). “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Cat, Science

Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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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 the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

Charles Darwin

Distance, Believe, Eye

"The Collapse of Evolution". Book by Scott Huse, p. 73, 1996.

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Only the fittest will survive.

Charles Darwin

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Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Charles Darwin

Records, Fossils, Changed

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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Charles Darwin

Pain, Animal, Men

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Honesty, Ignorance, Humility

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Charles Darwin

Science, Mind, Matter

Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.78, Hackett Publishing

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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

Charles Darwin

Law, Free Will, Fixed

Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.431, Broadview Press

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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

Charles Darwin

Love Life, Desert, Trials

"Darwin letters evolve to web" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

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Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Needs, Species

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Born: February 12, 1809
Died: April 19, 1882
Occupation: Naturalist
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