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.
CHARLES DARWINAt no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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 am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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