There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWINTo kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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