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Charles Darwin Quotes

English - Scientist | February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882

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

Funny Love I Am Fools Always Making

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

Animals Equal Slaves Like Whom Made

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

Natural Useful Principle Variation

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

God Myself Intention Living Within

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

Man Habits Hairy Descended

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

Man Greater Than Means His Increase

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Heart Man Stone Wishes Scientific

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Science Progress Facts Long Endure

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Science View Ordinary Gain Been

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Good Truth Service Better Sometimes

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Future Man World Will Savage Almost

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Mind Facts Kind Become Out Laws

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