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.
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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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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 highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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