We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWINWe are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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 is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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