I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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The 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.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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