The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
CHARLES DARWINMan 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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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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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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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 would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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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.
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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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