We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWINThe moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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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 highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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