The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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 are optimists, until we are not.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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