It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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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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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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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