Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
CHARLES DARWINA language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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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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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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