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Charles Darwin Quote - The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.

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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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Imagination Increase Interest Knowledge Limitation Man Neighbor Perhaps Possess Subject
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Beget Confidence Frequent Ignorance Knowledge
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
Only the fittest will survive.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fitness Gumnastic One Liner Survival
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
Even 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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attack Fame Love Truth
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Children Future Present Surround
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWIN

Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chief Plant Travel View
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Friendship Man Measure Worth
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Age Give Up Religion
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWIN

Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWIN

Desert Life Love Trial

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