Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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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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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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