A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
CHARLES DARWINA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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