The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWINHence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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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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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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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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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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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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