Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWINI am not the least afraid to die.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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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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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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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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