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Charles Darwin Quotes: Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
         

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



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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.



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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.



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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.



An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.



It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.



We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.



What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!





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