Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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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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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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