It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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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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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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