Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWINWe can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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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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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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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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