A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWINWherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Only the fittest will survive.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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