The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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 world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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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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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his 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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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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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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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