Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWINMan selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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 agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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