The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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It 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.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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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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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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