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 DARWINA moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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