To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
CHARLES DARWINBesides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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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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