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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.
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Only the fittest will survive.
The man who walks with Henslow.
I am not the least afraid to die
It is like confessing to a murder.
We are optimists, until we are not.
The normal food of man is vegetable.
The willing horse is always overworked.
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
We have happy days, remember good dinners.
Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.
Progress has been much more general than retrogression
Music was known and understood before words were spoken.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection
It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.
A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.
I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
