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 DARWINWherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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