My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINIt strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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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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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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