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Charles Darwin was the naturalist from Britain who become infamous for his theory on evolution. Here are some of his famous quotes.

	If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.
	One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
	Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
	It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
	There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
	A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that doesn't exist.
	False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
	In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
	It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most responsive to change.
	Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
	Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
	The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
	The slowest goat sees the last sunset last.
	We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
	When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.
	I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

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