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
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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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 normal food of man is vegetable.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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