Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWINA scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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