Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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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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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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