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Charles Darwin Quote - A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advise Clear Ignorance Perceive
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Follow Inspirational Lead Men
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWIN

Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
CHARLES DARWIN

Build Result Smart
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution God
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN

Affection Heart Man Science Stone
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attack Fame Love Truth
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWIN

Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
The normal food of man is vegetable.
CHARLES DARWIN

Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Prove Record Species
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
CHARLES DARWIN

Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN

Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWIN

One Liner Optimism

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