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• Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Horse, Character

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.385

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• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• 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 injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Survival, Would Be

  Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.92

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• Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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• There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

  Charles Darwin

  Differences, Fundamentals, Faculty

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• Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Deities, Wonderful

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• Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

  Charles Darwin

  Nice, Book, Fire

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.219, NYU Press

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• It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Men, Doubt

  "Darwin's complex loss of faith" by Nick Spencer, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2009.

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• How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Children, Innocence

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Essence, Intuition

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Long, Doe

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Natural Selection”, p.202, Bibliolis Books

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• Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

  Charles Darwin

  Aboriginal, Pursue

  "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World: the Evolution".

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• 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, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Simple, Cycling

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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• The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

  Charles Darwin

  Vegetarianism, World, Vegan

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• Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.145, Diversion Books

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• It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Space, Facts

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.176, Broadview Press

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• Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Science, Law

  Charles Darwin Ch. 2 by Francis Darwin

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• Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

  Charles Darwin

  Important, World, Firsts

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• Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

  Charles Darwin

  Understood, Known

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• Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Science, Journey

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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• ...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Knowledge, Science

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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• As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

  Charles Darwin

  Perfection, Progress, Natural

  Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.428

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• 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 harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Theory Of Evolution, Long

  Descent of Man Ch. 21, Appleton, New York (1871)

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• It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Origin Of Life, Essence

  Charles Darwin (2003). “The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.452, Penguin

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• Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Long, Age

  Charles Darwin (1866). “On the origin of species ... A facsimile of the first edition, with an introduction by Ernst Mayr. With a portrait and a bibliography”, p.370

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