Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWINAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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It 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.
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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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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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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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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