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William HazlittIt is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world: he would seem to belong to a different species.

 - William Hazlitt

Tags:   fault  imperfection  species  

Charles DarwinOwing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving.

 - Charles Darwin

Tags:   evolution  genetics  inheritance  life  offspring  species  survival  

Charles DarwinThus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. 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.

 - Charles Darwin

Tags:   evolution  life  nature  species