Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWINIt is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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 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.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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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.
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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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