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“Some call it evolution, And others call it God.”

Quote by Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, is renowned as the founder of evolutionary biology. Born on February 12, 1809, in England, he passed away on April 19, 1882. Darwin is best known for his research on the theory of evolution, which proposed that species evolve through natural selection and survival of the fittest. more

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“Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.”

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Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

“A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.”

Language Species

Author:Charles Darwin

“As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.”

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Book:On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life

“A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.”

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Book:Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

“There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.”

World Long Figures Source Cease Enjoyment Reasonable Maps Blank Animated Voyages

Book:Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary

Source: Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary

“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”

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Book:The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

“It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.”

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Book:The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

“[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.”

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Book:The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 23: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”

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Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species