There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWINI 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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