We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWINIf every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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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 highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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 love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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