Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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 never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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 can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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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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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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