Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINThe love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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