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A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.
Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise and this into astonishment and this into stupefied amazement.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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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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The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
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