I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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 long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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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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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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