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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

Charles Darwin

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
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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Adapt Advantage Change Environment Fundamental Identity Lose Powerful Species
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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Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Animal Collaboration History Human
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Beget Confidence Frequent Ignorance Knowledge
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Goodness Man Nature Selection
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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Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Length Man Noble Quality
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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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
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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Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Friendship Man Measure Worth

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