Charles Darwin Short Quotes

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Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

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How dreadfully difficult it is to name plants.

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The truth will not penetrate a preoccupied mind.

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Extinction and natural selection go hand in hand.

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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

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No one has a right to speculate without distinct facts.

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Truly the schemes and wonders of Nature are illimitable.

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Any variation which is not inherited is unimportant for us.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

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The force of impressions generally depends on preconceived ideas.

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I hope you have not murdered too completely your own and my child.

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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

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I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

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I have an old belief that a good observer really means a good theorist.

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We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.

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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

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The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.

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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy, and love by their stridulation.

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Disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man.

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I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

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

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I value praise for accurate observation far higher than for any other quality.

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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If everyone were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

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Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

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