Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWINWe stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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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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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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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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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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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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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 when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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