I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWINWhat a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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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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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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