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 DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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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 never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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