I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWINIt is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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 have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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 very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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 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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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