Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWINThe 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.
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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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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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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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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