It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWINMan is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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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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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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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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