The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINNot one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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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 long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN