A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
CHARLES DARWINFree will is to mind what chance is to matter.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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