What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWINIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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 mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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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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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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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