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Quotes by Charles Robert Darwin

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change."

By Charles Robert Darwin

"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."

By Charles Robert Darwin

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no"

By Charles Robert Darwin

"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits."

By Charles Robert Darwin

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

By Charles Robert Darwin

"The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argumen"

By Charles Robert Darwin

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."

By Charles Robert Darwin

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some ev"

By Charles Robert Darwin

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"A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady."

"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme"

"The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic as"

"I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race."

"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother."