I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Even 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.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its 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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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