We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.Charles Robert Darwin
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.
Charles Robert Darwin
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Charles Robert Darwin
About to start the Origin of Species in 1856 What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low horridly cruel works of nature.
Charles Robert Darwin
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Charles Robert Darwin
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
Charles Robert Darwin
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