I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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