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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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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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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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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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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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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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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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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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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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