Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
CHARLES DARWINA man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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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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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWIN