Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
CHARLES DARWINAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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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 loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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