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Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification it can act only by very short steps.
Charles Darwin
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture.
Charles Darwin
Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. In the long-run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity. Great God! how I should like to see the greatest curse on earth - slavery - abolished!
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[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
Charles Darwin
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
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
Charles Darwin
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
Charles Darwin
I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
Charles Darwin
The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
Charles Darwin
The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.
Charles Darwin
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
Charles Darwin
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones
Charles Darwin
A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.
Charles Darwin
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
Charles Darwin
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
Charles Darwin
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
Charles Darwin
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.
Charles Darwin
You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
Charles Darwin
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
Charles Darwin
