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One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.
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religion
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But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.
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As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety wil..
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evolution
nature
change
life
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The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.
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earthquakes
power
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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.
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evolution
science
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Whilst Man, however well-behaved, At best is but a monkey shaved!
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The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is STATED, FIXED or SETTLED; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."--Butler: "Analogy of Revealed Religion"." --
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he importance and influence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection can scarcely be exaggerated. A century after Darwin's death, the great evolutionary biologist and historian of science, Ernst Mayr, wrote, 'The worldview formed by any thinking person in the Western world after 1859, when On the Origin of Species was published, was by necessity quite different from a worldview formed prior to 1859... The intellectual re..
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Charles Darwin |
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It is a curious little world within itself
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Charles Darwin |
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descent with modification
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Charles Darwin |
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.
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Charles Darwin |
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Disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man.
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Charles Darwin |
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It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
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Charles Darwin |
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
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Charles Darwin |
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I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
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Charles Darwin |
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To my mind there are no advantages and many disadvantages in lectures compared with reading.
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Charles Darwin |
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Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
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Charles Darwin |
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I hope that I may die before my mind fails to a sensible extent.
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Charles Darwin |
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Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections -- a mere heart of stone.
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Charles Darwin |
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The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!
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Charles Darwin |
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A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.
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Charles Darwin |
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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
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Charles Darwin |