It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWINHow paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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.
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