Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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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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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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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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Man 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 at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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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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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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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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