A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWINThe moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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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 world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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