Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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.
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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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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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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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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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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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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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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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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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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