The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINThe more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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