A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
CHARLES DARWINEven when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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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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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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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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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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