A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles R. Darwin,
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I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles R. Darwin, The Origin of Species (ch. III)
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe[s,] to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
- Charles R. Darwin,
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Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into…
I believe from what I have seen Humboldts glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare union of poetry with science which he so strongly displays when writing on tropical scenery, with all this falls far short of the truth. The…
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