Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINI have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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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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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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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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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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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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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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