The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWINBlushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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