Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
CHARLES DARWINThe love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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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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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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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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