A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWINFreedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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 a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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