Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWINWe behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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The willing horse is always overworked.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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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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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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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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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