If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
CHARLES DARWINOften a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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