How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWINEven 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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