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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Dull Found Lately Me Read Shakespeare Tried

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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Control Culture Highest Moral Ought Our Possible Recognize Stage Thoughts

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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.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Almost Centuries Certainly Civilized Distant Future Man Measured Period Races Replace Savage Some Throughout Very Will World

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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.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Bodies Cannot Created Express Feeding God Intention Living Myself Omnipotent Parasitic Persuade Within Would

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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 Darwin

Topics: Each Natural Natural Selection Preserved Principle Selection Slight Term Useful Variation Which

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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Caused Great Institutions Laws Misery Nature Our Poor Sin

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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Agnostic All Things Beginning Content Must Mystery Remain Things Us

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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Children Future How Paramount Present Surrounded

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

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Greater His Increase Man Means Rate Subsistence Tends Than

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

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Been Created Each Explanation Gain Having Independently Ordinary Scientific Species View

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: February 12th, 1809

Died: April 19th, 1882

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