A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWINSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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