A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
CHARLES DARWINBlushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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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 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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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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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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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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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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 long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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 most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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