The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWINMan scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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