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Charles Darwin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1882
Died: April 19
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Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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.
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Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
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We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!
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What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than the woman. Whether deep thought, reason, or imagination or merely the use of the senses and hands.....We may also infer.....The average mental power in man must be above that of woman.
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There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful but when in doubt I prayed earnestly to God to help me, and I well remember that I attributed my success to the prayers and not to my quick running, and marvelled how generally I was aided.
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It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
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