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Charles Darwin Quotes: Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.
         

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.


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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.



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

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

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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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The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

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