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

Charles Darwin

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
CHARLES DARWIN

Body Die Inch Insect Talk
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact False High Injurious Progress Science
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
CHARLES DARWIN

Affection Heart Man Science Stone
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beauty Cast Same Science
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chief Plant Travel View
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attack Fame Love Truth
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feeling Hopeless Ignorance Immensity Man Thinking
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advise Clear Ignorance Perceive

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