00:00It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.
00:07It is the one that is most responsive to change.
00:11Charles Darwin
00:15A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
00:21Charles Darwin
00:25Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
00:28It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that
00:34problem will never be solved by science.
00:37Charles Darwin
00:41There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms
00:47or into one,
00:48and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity,
00:53from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
01:01Charles Darwin
01:04The love for all living things is the noblest attribute of man.
01:09Charles Darwin
01:13We are not here to triumph, but to endure.
01:17Charles Darwin
01:21A collection of facts is not a science, any more than a heap of stones is a house.
01:27Charles Darwin
01:31The highest and most praiseworthy form of morality is one that does not admit of any doubt or compromise.
01:38Charles Darwin
01:42It is a curious fact that the mind of an animal is never, as far as we know, affected by
01:47the past.
01:49Charles Darwin
01:53Man, by his wisdom, can scarcely be said to have benefited the other races of the world.
02:00Charles Darwin
02:03When we consider the vastness of the universe, and the comparative insignificance of our own planet,
02:10it is difficult to believe that we are the sole inhabitants.
02:14Charles Darwin
02:18Man's origin is from the animal kingdom, not from a race of angels.
02:23Charles Darwin
02:27I have called this principle of preservation, or survival of the fittest, by which natural selection must be understood.
02:35Charles Darwin
02:39The scientist is a philanthropist who gives the world the benefit of his discoveries.
02:45Charles Darwin
02:49Nothing is easier than to admit in words that there is no God.
02:54Nothing is harder than to really believe it.
02:58Charles Darwin
03:02The more I study the universe, the more I am convinced that it is not the result of chance, but
03:07of a wise and intelligent design.
03:10Charles Darwin
03:14Education is the key to unlocking the potential of the human mind.
03:20Charles Darwin
03:23A man's country is not the land where he is born, but the land where he wishes to live.
03:30Charles Darwin
03:33It is better to have guessed and failed than never to have guessed at all.
03:38Charles Darwin
03:42The survival of the fittest is not the survival of the strongest, but the survival of those who are best
03:48adapted to their environment.
03:51Charles Darwin
03:52The provokary of his use of the personal stories of the nature of the human mind.
03:54Charles Darwin
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