The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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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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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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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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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 very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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