Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWINThus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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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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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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