The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINOnly picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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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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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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