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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent deity.
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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 birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.
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The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush.
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Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
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