If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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 highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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 love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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