Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWINIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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