Charles Darwin Quotes and Quotations
I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural Selection. The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient. Light may be shed on man and his origins. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection. The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the "Survival of the fittest", is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities. I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.
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