Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWIN
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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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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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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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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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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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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The willing horse is always overworked.
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We 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 mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWIN