Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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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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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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