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“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
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“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
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“...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”
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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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“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.”
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“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
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“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others”
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“Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence”
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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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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
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