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English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

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

– Charles Darwin

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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

– Charles Darwin

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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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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

– Charles Darwin

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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

– Charles Darwin

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: 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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Intelligence is based on how efficient a species becomes at doing the things they need to survive.

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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

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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.

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We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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