Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
CHARLES DARWINAt no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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 more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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