To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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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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