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.
CHARLES DARWINIt 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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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