The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWINA language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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 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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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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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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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