Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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 would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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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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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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