An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINFrom my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Only the fittest will survive.
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