Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWINTo kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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 man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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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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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 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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