"Voyage of the Beagle" Quotes
Charles Darwin recounts his five-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle, documenting his discoveries and observations which ultimately led to the development of his theory of evolution.
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Quotes
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
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 every week.
In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
