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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.

Charles Darwin

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Absorb Evil Man Myself Subject
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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Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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Beauty Cast Same Science
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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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
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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Animal Collaboration History Human
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Important Shield Sword Victory
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Essence Follow Independence Instinct Reason
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Detail Discuss Existence Struggle

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